Rural Distress and the Concentration of Financial and Economic Power
Guadalupe County Hospital in Santa Rosa, NM. Many rural NM hospitals are struggling right now. Photo courtesy Guadalupe County Hospital website (www.gchnm.org). By Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance | April 20, 2021 Testimony before the U.S....
Sen. James Sanders’ public banking bill: How it could work in New York
Photo by farmboyted, Flickr (CC by NC-2.0) By Susan Arbetter, City of Albany | May 3, 2021 For decades, many banks in the U.S. denied mortgages to people of color based strictly on race or the neighborhood where they lived. The practice, which started in the...
‘What Are We Going To Do?’: Towns Reel As Banks Close Branches At Record Pace
Photo by throgers, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Scott Horsley, NPR | March 26, 2021 A NM Public Bank would support and grow our local banks through loan partnerships George Holland, the mayor of Moorhead, Miss., remembers the feeling when he heard that Regions Bank was...
Is this the year Washington state starts a public bank?
If passed, SB 5188 will establish a public bank in Washington, which would allow municipalities across the state to deposit public funds and borrow to fund infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges and affordable housing. (Jovelle Tamayo for Crosscut) By Katie...
Powerful alternatives to predatory lenders: Postal Service banking and public banks
Lincoln Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Jovan J, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Terri Friedline and Ameya Pawar, Chicago Sun-Times | March 16, 2021 The payday and auto title loan industry offers predatory loans to people who live in communities...Upcoming Events
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California’s New Public Banking Option Opens Door for Real Community Investment
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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.”
Ellen Brown’s
2019 Book
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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“I had the good fortune to work on this initiative before Bernie kidnapped all my time. This is one of those no-brainer initiatives that only the 1% could oppose. It has the potential to save the state millions of dollars by vastly reducing the cost of its bonds to improve infrastructure funding. in a public bank, our state funds can be used to build our local economy and our local infrastructure.”
– Paul Gibson
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