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Zooming in on the Loop
For over 20 years, India’s rural jobs program provided a legal right to work for over 265 million people–the majority of them women–serving as a lifeline against poverty & a global model for social security. Tragically, however, that lifeline is now being cut.
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"What do we owe to haShem and what do we owe to each other?"
"[S]acred ... spaces are not properly entered
directly, but only after respectfully circling around them."
-Jale Nejdet Erzen
"The idea is to keep our money at home, to invest in ourselves and our message is 'look, every time you send in tax dollars to your city, county, state, or whatever fees and so forth, they take that money and they send it essentially to Wall Street.'”
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Zooming in on the Loop
Important clarification about @moneyontheleft.bsky.social’s Loop proposal.
Public programs become part of the balance sheet architecture that sustains the public bank. That’s the loop.
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson In previous writings, we advanced an inventive new model for municipal finance: what we call the Seattle Loop. By establishing a city-owned public bank, we pr…
By Anna Minsky The following speech was read on March 28th at a progressive New York City synagogue, a guest sermon by one of the congregants. In the Jewish tradition, each week we read one part (a…
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let…
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson In previous writings, we advanced an inventive new model for municipal finance: what we call the Seattle Loop. By establishing a city-owned public bank, we pr…
If only there was a way, not to engage in neoliberal austerity…
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Ferguson's budget director sent a letter to every state agency telling them three things. Stop expanding programs. Prepare significant cuts. Don't count on the new millionaires tax to cover anything.
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Will Beaman
Like we’ve said before the parts and components have been proposed, but they’ve never been engineered in the way we propose.
And never has it been proposed to make the public bank itself the central point of coordination.
Social programs have never been constructed around strengthening a bank.
