It took Arizona three months to reach 20,000 cases of COVID19. After Governor Dour Ducey opened up the economy in early May, it took only three weeks to add another 20,000 cases. Arizona now has the WORST outbreak of COVID19 in the nation. In addition to our state’s disregard for solid public health policies, such…
In June, we had the honor of being in Princeton, New Jersey on the night Phil Murphy won the Democratic Party Primary for governor. Tea-Party-Tax-Cut-King Governor Chris Christie is termed out, so this is an open seat. Many Legislators across the country– including Tucson’s LD9 Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley– have campaigned and won on a…
The state of Arizona has been cutting taxes every year for more than 25 years in an attempt to spur economic development. So far trickle down economics hasn’t worked well. Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley introduced HB2532 to establish a feasibility study to collect baseline data regarding the benefits of establishing an Arizona state bank. Powers…
For the second year in a row, Southern Arizona Senator Andrea Dalessandro’s task force bill to study creation of a state-owned passed the Arizona Senate’s Financial Institutions Committee. This year’s bipartisan vote was 6-1 with only Senator Gail Griffin, also from Southern Arizona, voting no. In the highly polarized Legislature where many bills sponsored by…
We are much obliged to Mr. Robert G. Brown, a public banking advocate for scheduling a meeting for us with Pima County District 1 Supervisor Ally Miller. We met with her in her in her office today for about an hour. We presented “Top 10 Reasons for Public Banking” power point. She was especially interested to…
Arizonans for a New Economy will present the Top 10 Ways Public Banking Can Boost Arizona’s Economy today– March 1– at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Green Valley in Amado. The talk will follow the regular service, which begins at 10 a.m. The public banking presentation and discussion will be around 11:30 a.m. We are…
Austerity is a lie. We have plenty of money. The problem is that it is being gambled on Wall Street, instead of being invested on Main Street. That is the message of public banking. The State of Arizona– and 48 other states– allow billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to be invested for the benefit…
For the past year, Arizonans for a New Economy Co-Directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers-Hannley have been giving presentations and promoting public banking throughout Southern Arizona. And the work continues into 2015. Most recently, we spoke to Sustainable Tucson in December and to the Mountain Vista Unitarian Universalist Church in January. Check out the video presentations…
We remain convinced, judging by the evidence and the experience with long standing public banking in North Dakota that public banking immensely benefits community banks. We have lamented our lack to date of engaging a community bank to partner with us so we do not have to continue to represent their interests on their behalf. We…
Why should Wall Street benefit from tax dollars? Arizonans should benefit from Arizona tax dollars. With the creation of a state bank, Arizona could bring state tax dollars back to our state and invest them here at home in infrastructure projects, local business lending, and debt relief for citizens with student loans or underwater mortgages.…
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