Public Banking

Public Banking Visioning Summit Recap

Well, it’s been two weeks since our Visioning Summit, and we’re still filled with gratitude that so many of you put aside all you could...

A Public Bank Can Support Black-Owned Businesses

by Kay Lasker Kay Lasker is a member of the Philadelphia Public Banking Coalition. This letter to the Editor appeared in the August 16,...

Bring our money home. Philly needs a public bank.

Op-Ed by Vanessa Lowe and Stanley Shapiro published in Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2, 2021 Solutions to the looming $450 million hole in...

Philly First Town Hall on Public Banking

The Philadelphia Public Bank Coalition held its first Town Hall on September 1, 2020, to explore the ways a municipally owned bank could...

TOWN HALL: WHY PHILADELPHIA NEEDS A PUBLIC BANK

Wouldn’t it be nice if Philly cut its ties with Wall Street Vultures? You remember, the firms that plundered the economy a mere decade...

Join Us at Council to Lobby for a Public Bank

What if the City had its own bank and no longer had to leave its billions of reserve dollars to the tender mercies of Wall St? Pipe...

New NJ Treasurer Supports Public Banking

New Jersey Governor-elect Phil Murphy, who made public banking part of his election platform, has just named Democratic Assemblywoman...

Philadelphia Says ‘Bye-Bye’ to Wells Fargo: Is the Next Step a Pubic Bank?

More and more local governments are divesting from Wells Fargo after multiple scandals. Philadelphia recently jumped ship and left Wells...