{"id":224522,"date":"2021-04-28T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224522"},"modified":"2021-04-28T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:39:44","slug":"biden-promotes-infrastructure-education-child-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224522","title":{"rendered":"Biden Promotes Infrastructure, Education, Child Care Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138890\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BidenJoe1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BidenJoe1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BidenJoe1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BidenJoe1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Washington\u00a0 (AP) President Joe Biden says 12 years of education is no longer enough to compete in the 21st century. But he&#8217;s also saying a college degree is unnecessary for nearly 90% of the jobs that would be created through his proposal to boost the country\u2019s roads, bridges and other public works.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is using his first speech to Congress to promote his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan and his newly announced $1.8 trillion proposal that includes universal preschool, two years of free community college and $225 billion for child care.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are seeking a narrower, less costly infrastructure plan. Biden is selling his plan as a massive job creator. He calls it a \u201cblue-collar blueprint to build America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to education, Biden said the \u201cworld is catching up.\u201d He&#8217;s looking to provide for two years of universal preschool for every 3- and 4- year-old in America. On top of that, his plan would add two years of free community college.<\/p>\n<p>He says his administration would also increase investments in Pell grants and in historically Black colleges and universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u00a0 (AP) President Joe Biden says 12 years of education is no longer enough to compete in the 21st century. But he&#8217;s also saying a college degree is unnecessary for nearly 90% of the jobs that would be created through his proposal to boost the country\u2019s roads, bridges and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224526,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224522\/revisions\/224526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}