Citizens' Commission News Conference Highlights

This four-minute podcast is an excerpt of a news briefing by members of the Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future. Their report presents a progressive alternative to the austerity proposals offered by the leaders of the White House deficit commission and by other panels influenced by the budget-cutting campaign of financier Peter G. Peterson and other conservatives.

Participating in the briefing are Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future; Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change; Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and president of PolicyLink; Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America; and Robert Kuttner, senior fellow at Demos and founding editor at The American Prospect.