by reducing student debt working and middle class families. let s finish the job. and connect students to career opportunity starting in high school. provide access to two years of community college. the best current training in america in addition to being a path to a four-year degree. whether they go to college or not, and folks, folks, in the midst of the covid crisis when schools were closed. and we were shutting down everything, let s recognize how far we have come in the fight against the pandemic itself. while the virus is not gone, thanks to resilience of the american people and ingenuity of medicine, we have broken the covid grip on us. covid deaths are down by 90%. we have saved millions of lives
is going to outcompete us. any nation that out educates us is going to out-compete us. folks, we all know 12 years of education is not enough to win the economic competition of the 21st century. we want to have the best educated workforce. let s finish the job by providing access to preschool for three and four-year-olds. studies show that children who go to preschooler nearly 50% more likely to go to high school and earn a two or four year degree, no matter the background they came from. let s give public school teachers a raise. [applause] we are making progress by reducing student debt, an increasing pell grants, for working middle class families. let s finish the job. we connect students to career
0 calm, steady place to work. it has been. what i would say is remarkable about it is that nobody left during the first two years, and that nobody has left since republicans took control of the house. many of them know that they will be the subject of an impeachment inquiry from the house. they are still there. secretary mayorkas, probably the first target. he is walking into listen to the president speech tonight, and there s no indication that he s leaving. that s actually pretty remarkable, given what they know they re going to face. you see the secretary here, the aforementioned secretary mayorkas, 1000 people in that room. i have to say, i know this is wrong, but it does give me to see the average age of that room, and see precisely one mask. i realize we re in a different position, but these are a lot of very important, very powerful for the most part, very old people. there are 1000 of them in the room, and they re going to be in their screaming together for several hours,
0 you don t but the chief justice has often said that he doesn t really like to come to these things because they re political. but he s come to many of them. i think he has one he has come to every one. one of the records. something like 18. even during the covid year when almost nobody came, he was the only supreme court justice who came. we see there the secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg, secretary of energy. you re joining us, you re one of the preeminent biographers of joe biden. what is going through his mind in this very unique landscape with a new republican-led house and this newly-heightened challenge from china, not a new challenge, but newly-heightened? you know, there are moments for a political speech. we heard some of thoiz recently from him during the midterms and may, in fact, be hearing more of that kind if he does run for re-election. that s not what tonight is about. tonight is about being president of the united states. and i heard from one of