February 20, 2009

NBC Nightly News interviewed Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, senior fellow at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development, about the recent budget deal reached by California lawmakers. The deal involves higher taxes, deep cuts in services and more borrowing, the report noted. "This is what happens when partisans force their elected representatives to pay more attention to ideology than to the needs and the concerns of the general public," Jeffe said. Click here to watch to the full online interview with Sherry Bebitch Jeffe.