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As a credit union executive and public banking advocate, I am eager to provide another perspective on public banking than the one presented by Henry Meier last month in CU Times. Public banking is based on the premise that public money should work for the public good. When public money is placed in private banks, those funds too often leave the local community and fail to support local reinvestment.

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