by Angela Merkert, Executive Director, AFLEP — With the challenges in the financial system—banks closing, fintech gaining market space, interest rates rising—lending for small businesses is decreasing. One recent business article reported that the U.S. loan approval...
Forget Clinton’s and Trump’s Plans for the Economy: It’s Time to Erase Debt and Create Jobs
So far, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton has offered a credible plan to restart the long-stalled U.S. economy. Trump favors lowering taxes to spur demand, a reduction in the supply of illegal foreign labor to boost wages, and modifying trade policy to...Minneapolis Fed chief Neel Kashkari calls some racial disparity ‘a crisis’
He met with Twin Cities activists on Wednesday. Community organizer Wintana Melekin was grabbing a soda in late June at a coffee shop near her office when she heard Neel Kashkari, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, had just been in. Seeing her...Broad new fed rule could impact NM credit unions and small banks
Winona Nava, president and CEO of Santa Fe-based Guadalupe Credit Union, says that proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules should help protect against payday lenders who charge 300 to 500 percent annual interest rates for short-term loans, instead of less...City leaders eye new taxes, more use of utility reserves
By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican, Posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 11:30 pm | Updated: 9:59 am, Wed Feb 10, 2016. Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales and at least half of the City Council on Tuesday proposed that the city raise taxes and continue to tap the...NYTimes OpEds: Room for Debate – Should States Operate Public Banks?
While many of us understand the importance and benefit of public banks for stimulating local economies, there are many who have the opposite point-of-view and can present arguments that are reasonable, given their set of assumptions. It is important that we understand...
Access to Capital in New Mexico is Tightening
The Movement To Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities
By AALLYAH WRIGHT for Capital B News | MAY 17, 2023 — Some say the stores—disproportionately found in low-income, rural, and Black areas—stifle economic growth and job creation and exacerbate food insecurity. For years, the Rev. Donald Perryman wondered why the...
SEED NM 2022 Symposium: Bob Mang on how business guilds can regenerate communities
SEED NM 2022 Symposium: Bob Mang on how business guilds can regenerate communities
Bob Mang, Re-Genesis Inc, Co-Founder (Retired) and AFLEP Board member, talks about rural economic development and how business guilds can regenerate communities.Jan 14, 2022
VIDEO Challenging Misinformation About a NM State Public Bank
Episode: Everyone deserves a public bank
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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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