FEATURED PRESS
- The Urban Activist – LA’s Next Urban Revolution: A Public Bank
- Common Dreams – Public Banking in a Time of Crisis: How to Rebuild Los Angeles
- U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib – Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Public Banking Act
- Los Angeles Times – After years of ups and downs, Los Angeles moves forward on creation of a public bank
- Truthout – The SVB and Signature Bank Crashes Show Why We Need Public Banking
- SEIU California – Governor Newsom Signs First in the Nation Legislation on Universal Access to Free Banking Services
- Los Angeles Times – Free Banking in California? New Bill Tackles Access and Racial Equity
- ABC 7 News – Los Angeles Could be 1st Major U.S. City to Get a Public Bank
- KCET – Los Angeles Unanimously Supports Statewide Public Banking Option
- The Real News Network – California Legalizes Public Banking
- Democracy at Work with Richard Wolff – Public Service v. Private Profit
- Los Angeles Times – Why Los Angeles Should Start a Bank
- Bloomberg – Los Angeles Weighs Bringing Its Wall Street Cash Home
- Huffington Post – What If Banks Were Publicly Owned? In LA, This May Soon Be A Reality
- ABC 7 News – Measure B Would Allow Los Angeles to Create a Public Bank
Visit California Public Banking Alliance for additional coverage and news from the public banking movement.
NEWS ARTICLES
Public Banking: Financial Infrastructure for Guaranteed Income and a Just Economy
Tuesday, June 17 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT | Zoom
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As federal support for climate and infrastructure shrinks, cities are turning to bold tools to build local economic power. Public banking is one...
MSN – Three Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion Friday to fund a feasibility study for a proposed public bank, which supporters say could generate new revenue for the city without placing new taxes or fees on residents.
Council members Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado and Hugo...
On May 30, three LA City Councilmembers, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, and Ysabel Jurado, took a major step toward building the People’s Bank by each committing $15,000 from their discretionary funds to launch LA’s public bank feasibility study. They held a press conference...
MEDIA ADVISORY
Event Date: Friday, May 30, 2025 9:00AM
Contact:
Chelsea Lucktenberg, 213-733-4143, cd1comms@lacity.org
Councilmembers Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Jurado and Advocates to Host Press Conference Calling for Public Bank
LOS ANGELES — On Friday, May 30, 2025, Councilmembers Eunisses...
BREAKING: The LA Public Bank is one step closer to becoming a reality — and we need YOU on the steps of City Hall this Friday! Thanks to relentless organizing, Los Angeles is on the verge of making history. Amid budget cuts and economic uncertainty, this marks a bold move toward investing in what matters:...
New feature in The Urban Activist! Public Bank LA’s Executive Director Trinity Tran talks to The Urban Activist. She didn’t come from Wall Street, she came from the streets of LA, organizing alongside neighbors who were tired of watching public money line corporate pockets. She co-founded #PublicBankLA...
Our work is featured by world renowned progressive economist Gerald Epstein in his book Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us. Los Angeles and California have been a major hub for the public banking movement, inspiring efforts nationwide. From the foreclosure crisis to the fight...
The LA City Council needs to hear from all of us, loud and clear. The Public Bank LA Coalition is calling on the City to fully fund the Public Bank feasibility study in this year’s budget.
We’ve already secured unanimous Council support to move forward. Now we need the City Council to approve...
At the Catalyst Convening in Long Beach on March 26, 2025, hosted by the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) and the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC), Public Bank LA and California Public Banking Alliance’s Trinity Tran participated in a funding panel to discuss...
Our volunteer team of advocates from across the state: Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, and East Bay, met with legislators at the Capitol to discuss our progress with building a network of socially and environmentally responsible public banks, and we rallied for CalAccount.
It was a packed day...
Public Banking: Financial Infrastructure for Guaranteed Income and a Just Economy
Tuesday, June 17 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT | Zoom
Register Online via Zoom
As federal support for climate and infrastructure shrinks, cities are turning to bold tools to build local economic power. Public banking is one...
MSN – Three Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion Friday to fund a feasibility study for a proposed public bank, which supporters say could generate new revenue for the city without placing new taxes or fees on residents.
Council members Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado and Hugo...
On May 30, three LA City Councilmembers, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, and Ysabel Jurado, took a major step toward building the People’s Bank by each committing $15,000 from their discretionary funds to launch LA’s public bank feasibility study. They held a press conference...
MEDIA ADVISORY
Event Date: Friday, May 30, 2025 9:00AM
Contact:
Chelsea Lucktenberg, 213-733-4143, cd1comms@lacity.org
Councilmembers Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Jurado and Advocates to Host Press Conference Calling for Public Bank
LOS ANGELES — On Friday, May 30, 2025, Councilmembers Eunisses...
BREAKING: The LA Public Bank is one step closer to becoming a reality — and we need YOU on the steps of City Hall this Friday! Thanks to relentless organizing, Los Angeles is on the verge of making history. Amid budget cuts and economic uncertainty, this marks a bold move toward investing in what matters:...