Jackie Fielder knows she would be a relatively rarity when it comes to working-class people in power.
San Francisco’s break-up with Wall Street could happen in just a few years.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-of-its-kind law to help establish public banks — and San Francisco wants to be first in line.
San Francisco is one of several cities to explore taking taxpayer funds out of Wall Street and into a public bank.
Public bank advocates question nonprofit’s ties to big banks.
Momentum builds for a city-run bank as supervisors encourage starry-eyed thinking that could divest $11 billion annual budget away from Wall Street and to local issues.
