Former Vice President Joe Biden (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Asked about the plight of "working people" who hold several jobs and are "too exhausted to spend time with their kids," former Vice President Joe Biden told one mother he would take three approaches to the problem.

Biden, speaking at a CNN-hosted town hall, said first, he would raise the minimum wage to $15.

And second, he would triple the amount of money spent on economically disadvantaged schools to $45 billion a year, "which means every single solitary child, age 3, 4, and 5, will be in school -- not daycare, school," Biden said.

"And every university, including this great one and others, point out that if you do that, you increase exponentially the prospect of that child being able to go all the way through, all the way through high school, and go beyond high school.

"Somewhere between 48 percent and 54 percent of the people who go to preschool -- and I mean age 3, 4, and 5 -- not daycare, school -- you, in fact, wipe out the discrepancies that exist when you come from families that don't have opportunities."

Biden said his third approach would be to "raise teacher salaries."









