by Jennifer Dixon | Apr 14, 2021 | New Mexico, New Mexico News, News
Photo via bizjournals.com By American Society of Civil Engineers | April 13, 2021 A NM Public Bank could support some of the funding needed to improve our deteriorating infrastructure On March 3rd, ASCE released the 2021 Report Card for America’s...
by Jennifer Dixon | Apr 7, 2021 | California, COVID-19, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Access to basic banking services is under new focus as California seeks to address economic and racial inequity during the pandemic. (Sam Hodgson / San Diego Union-Tribune) By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times | April 6, 2021 Escalating overdraft charges....
by Jennifer Dixon | Apr 2, 2021 | California, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Eduardo Soares on Unsplash By Jana Kadah, Bay City News Service | March 31, 2021 California is presenting a different public banking model than New Mexico’s, which would not offer personal bank accounts Five California legislators are...
by Jennifer Dixon | Apr 2, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Jimmy Pigg, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Geeta Minocha, Cleveland Scene | April 1, 2021 Bob Hope, one of Cleveland’s greatest sons, once quipped, “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” In this one-liner is...
by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 30, 2021 | California, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
California capitol building in Sacramento. Photo by Mathieu Thouvenin, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal | March 29, 2021 Los Angeles Assemblymember Miguel Santiago has introduced legislation that would form a state panel to...
by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 29, 2021 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News
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...