The U.S. Human Rights Network released a podcast that examines the human rights implications of the recent federal debates about U.S. government debt and the debt ceiling. James Heintz,  Associate Director and Associate Research Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership and professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey provide analysis and context to the media’s coverage of the debates and discuss recommendations on how the human rights community can organize and respond.

Listen to the podcast here.