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California Leaders Propose Nation’s First Public Banking Option
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...
Public Banking Can Help Cleveland Reinvest In Itself
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...
Legislator seeks to create free banking services for Californians
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...
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...
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Episode: Everyone deserves a public bank
Join those who’ve endorsed a Public Bank for New Mexico
“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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