by Michelle Mosser | May 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Economics, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Ken Lund, Flickr) By Michael Brennan, The Washington Post | April 29, 2020 Michael Brennan is chair of the Public Banks Project of the Democracy Policy Network and is part of an interstate coalition of policy...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 30, 2020 | Bank of North Dakota, COVID-19, Economics, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: The nation’s only state-owned bank serves as a model for how the U.S. is fighting the economic damage of the pandemic. (Photo by Kaya / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | Apr 29, 2020 Bankers generally don’t like surprises. But as CEO at...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 29, 2020 | California, COVID-19, Local Economies, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Debbie Notkin by JCF By Debbie Notikin, Post News Group| Apr 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis is shining a bright and unforgiving light on the glaring economic and racial inequalities we live with every day. Public banking is a major step toward a more just and...
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, 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...