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• July 16, 2012 at 6:52 PM EDT

  Vice President Biden Speaks To Seniors About Retirement Security

  The Vice President told the audience that when it comes to Social Security and Medicare, “the question is what are we going to do to strengthen and sustain these programs now and for the future”

• April 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM EDT

  Investing in the Potential of the Next Generation

  Vice President Joe Biden speaks to graduating seniors, parents, and teachers at Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia about the importance of a college education, and the work the Administration is doing to to make it affordable at a time when more and more families are facing difficult choices about how or even if they can finance a college education for their children.

• March 7, 2012 at 7:32 PM EDT

  Talking American Manufacturing at Iowa State University

  The Vice President talked about the reasons that manufacturing matters—not just to people who might one day work in manufacturing like the engineering students in the audience, but to the entire U.S. economy and to the American middle class

• February 8, 2012 at 6:56 PM EDT

  Vice President Highlights New College Affordability Proposals at Florida State

  The Vice President visits Florida State University to talk with students about the Administration's comprehensive plan to address rising college costs.

• January 13, 2012 at 7:45 PM EDT

  Higher Education and the Middle Class Bargain

  Vice President Joe Biden this week called for the “bargain with the middle class” to be restored: “There was a bargain in place for last 50 years that if you worked hard, you played by the rules, you helped increase productivity in America, you got a piece of the action. You benefited.”

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• December 9, 2011 at 1:16 PM EDT

  The Vice President Talks College Affordability in Florida

  Vice President Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visit Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach, Florida to talk to students and their parents about college affordability.

• November 9, 2011 at 2:35 PM EDT

  "A Victory for the Middle Class" in Ohio

  Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement congratulating the people of Ohio for rejecting Issue 2 -- a law that would have stripped public employees of their collective bargaining rights.

• November 4, 2011 at 6:29 PM EDT

  Vice President Biden Talks College Affordability in Pennsylvania

  On Friday, Vice President Biden spoke to a group of students at the University of Pittsburgh about steps the Administration has taken to make it easier to pay for college