Report: Condition of New Mexico roads ‘a complete disaster’
Photo by Gabriel Campos, Santa Fe New Mexican By Daniel J. Chacon, Santa Fe New Mexican | March 4, 2021 A Public Bank for New Mexico would prioritize and invest in local development projects such as infrastructure New Mexico’s roadways are in terrible...
The Pandemic Is Pushing Cities to Rethink How to Drive Capital to Small Business
Photo by Bill Smith / CC BY 2.0 By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | February 26, 2021 As of February 2020, counting currency in circulation, deposits in bank and credit union checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and money market...
Albuquerque’s Quest to Buy Local Everything
James, an employee of Diverse Office Supply, packs Primo crayons. Diverse Office Supply landed a $5 million contract to supply the City of Albuquerque with office supplies in 2019, a contract that was responsible for Diverse Office Supply riding out COVID-19 (so far)....
Strengthening the links in the food chain
From left, Bryan Romero, from Springer, Sebastian Aguiera and Joseph Salazar, from Santa Fe, work with other YouthWorks staff Tuesday to prepare meals for about 160 people at the El Rancho de Las Golondrinas commercial kitchen. The work is part of an effort to...
Finding Common Ground
Judy Wicks. Photo courtesy Where’s Wicks? Newsletter By Judy Wicks, Where’s Wicks? Newsletter | December 8, 2020 Public Banking can play a strong role in supporting local community development. The 2020 election has left us a deeply divided...Upcoming Events
A discussion with Ray Archuleta and David Johnson about regenerative agriculture in New Mexico. Part of NMSU’s series of Environmental Sustainability Talks.
California’s New Public Banking Option Opens Door for Real Community Investment
FAIR / Truthout.org
Economy & Labor
Oct 22, 2019
Janine Jackson interviews Public Bank LA’s Trinity Tran about public banking for the October 11, 2019, episode of “CounterSpin.”
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Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.
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– Paul Gibson
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