Vice President Joe Biden is visiting North Carolina Friday to join his wife in stumping for the Obama Administration's push for community colleges.
The White House says that the vice president will join Jill Biden and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis at Davidson County Community College in Thomasville Friday morning. That will mark the end of a three-day bus tour through key election states for Solis and Jill Biden.
Their message is that community colleges have an important role in training workers to meet emerging business needs.
President Obama’s Fiscal year 2013 budget proposal includes a new $8 billion Community College to Career fund to forge hundreds of new partnerships between community colleges and businesses to train workers with skills that lead directly to new jobs.
Jill Biden was a community college instructor for 18 years. Solis is a former community college trustee.
The tour has one North Carolina stop after rolling through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
In 2008, Former President Bill Clinton visited Davidson County Community College to stump for his wife's presidential campaign.
WFDD’s Keri Brown is in Davidson County for the event and will have more at Noon and on All Things Considered.
