by Michelle Mosser | Apr 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Economics, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: First lady Eleanor Roosevelt talking in June 1936 with the superintendent of a waterfront park project in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. Courtesy FDR Presidential Library & Museum. By Timothy Knowles and Ameya Pawar,...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 24, 2020 | Economics, Monetary Policy, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo courtesy Public Banking Institute By Public Banking Institute | Apr 22, 2020 In an open letter to state governors and treasurers, Public Banking Institute details three new funding possibilities states can tap to rescue communities from financial catastrophe and...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Local Economies, New Mexico, News
Photo: Employees at work at local toilet paper provider Roses Southwest Papers in Albuquerque (Image courtesy Roses Southwest Papers) By Valerie Vande Panne, Next City | Apr 20, 2020 At a time when businesses pivot from making booze to hand sanitizer, and from sewing...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 20, 2020 | COVID-19, Economics, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Paulo Silva on Unsplash By Isaiah Poole and Rick Girling, The Hill | Apr 17, 2020 At least 90 percent of the nation’s cities are facing a budget crisis because of the economic shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 17, 2020 | Economics, National, News, Small Business
Photo: Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, by Oscar Perry Abello By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | Apr 16, 2020 Applications officially opened on April 3 for the new Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 13, 2020 | Economics, National, News
Photo by Queven from Pixabay By Henry M. Paulson Jr., The Washington Post | Apr 10, 2020 Henry M. Paulson Jr. is a former U.S. treasury secretary, chairman of the Paulson Institute and co-chairman of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. The pandemic crisis...