{"id":106375,"date":"2014-01-15T15:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellenbrown.com\/2014\/01\/15\/vermonters-for-a-new-economy-final-state-bank-study\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:44:59","slug":"vermonters-for-a-new-economy-final-state-bank-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/vermonters-for-a-new-economy-final-state-bank-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermonters for a New Economy, Final State Bank Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>After many months of preparation and peer review, the Vermonters for a New Economy group has finally completed the study of the economic impacts of a public bank in Vermont. \u00a0Highlights include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>over 2,500 new jobs created<\/li>\n<li>over $190M in new economic value added<\/li>\n<li>over $340M in additional\u00a0gross state product<\/li>\n<li>the existing institutions already have the capital to establish a bank, no new appropriation or bonding needed.<\/li>\n<li>recommendation that VEDA\u2019s authority be expanded to include banking, which is what S. 204 proposes this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the study <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0BzcTZcFuN64RUVk5dlNrOHlJVGc\/edit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-rating-enabled sd-like-enabled\">\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-1121595-7041-52d9648d25b41\" data-src=\"\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=1121595&amp;post_id=7041&amp;origin=webofdebt.wordpress.com&amp;obj_id=1121595-7041-52d9648d25b41\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-1121595-7041-52d9648d25b41\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"><\/span><a class=\"sd-link-color\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"postinfo\">\n\t\t\t\tFiled under: <a href=\"http:\/\/ellenbrown.com\/category\/ellen-brown-articlescommentary\/\" title=\"View all posts in Ellen Brown Articles\/Commentary\" rel=\"category tag\">Ellen Brown Articles\/Commentary<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>After many months of preparation and peer review, the Vermonters for a New Economy group has finally completed the study of the economic impacts of a public bank in Vermont. &nbsp;Highlights include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>over 2,500 new jobs created<\/li>\n<li>over $190M in new economic value added<\/li>\n<li>over $340M in additional&nbsp;gross state product<\/li>\n<li>the existing institutions already have the capital to establish a bank, no new appropriation or bonding needed.<\/li>\n<li>recommendation that VEDA&rsquo;s authority be expanded to include banking, which is what S. 204 proposes this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the study <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0BzcTZcFuN64RUVk5dlNrOHlJVGc\/edit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-src=\"\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=1121595&amp;post_id=7041&amp;origin=webofdebt.wordpress.com&amp;obj_id=1121595-7041-52d9648d25b41\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-1121595-7041-52d9648d25b41\">\n<h3>Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span>Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><a><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFiled under: <a href=\"http:\/\/ellenbrown.com\/category\/ellen-brown-articlescommentary\/\" title=\"View all posts in Ellen Brown Articles\/Commentary\" rel=\"category tag\">Ellen Brown Articles\/Commentary<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}