MID-HUDSON – President Biden’s proposed American Families Plan would do much for the country’s economy by providing additional workers with specific skills. That assessment came from SUNY Orange President Dr. Kristine Young during an online forum with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney (D, NY-18) on Tuesday.
Young said free tuition would remove the financial obstacle for many students while providing specific skills needed in the workforce.
“From the more technical side of it, the nursing, the cyber-security – imagine two years of full-time study in these technical fields and the jobs we can attract, the technical leaps that you can make as a society, we can support as a nation in terms of the technology that we can produce, support, maintain, repair, should push it so much further, so much more rapidly as a society,” she said.
Heather Decker, the early childhood development director for RECAP – the Regional Economic Community Action Program – said providing free prekindergarten for all three- and four-year-old children regardless of their families’ incomes would be another positive component of the American Families Plan.
