Progressives and Obama Robert Borosage: It's up to citizen groups to drive the reforms and mobilize the public June 2 - "I think the Obama administration has been much bolder in response to that crisis than I would have expected," Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America's Future, tells TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay from the America's Future Now conference in Washington, DC. Borosage lists off that Obama has made "real investments" in poverty with the recovery plan, "the biggest poverty investment since the war on poverty of the Great Society.[Obama has also] doubled the education budget at the federal level. Started investment in jobs and green energy—I mean, new energy and green jobs. The new budget put real investment in education and the environment again, energy again, and 21st-century infrastructure. He's teed up for a vote comprehensive health-care reform." Borosage says that Obama has laid out his health care plan on the table, and it is now up to citizen lobby groups to fight for aspects that are important to average Americans. "[It's] our job, the job of citizen groups, these big coalitions that have been built to try and drive these reforms, it's our job is to mobilize the public to make sure that the Congress knows that they're going to pay a price, you know, on this, and to put real pressure on them against the entrenched lobbies," he says. Though Borosage remains hopeful about the health care reform debates resulting in a public health care plan, he urges Americans to continue pressuring for their interests. "We strongly don't believe that health-care reform works unless you have a really robust public plan at the center of it. And so I think we would have a very hard time understanding how the bill works if we don't have a public plan. And that's why we assume we're going to get one. We've got one of the House. We've got to just keep pushing." To view the complete series, please click here. For Press Inquires, please contact: Sharmini Peries Senior Editorial Board Member Email:  sharmini@therealnews.com