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May 22, 2009 10:22 pm US/Mountain

Biden To Host Middle-Class Forum In Denver

DENVER (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Vice President Joe Biden, left, and President Barack Obama, in Denver Feb. 17, 2009.
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Vice President Joe Biden will be in Denver on Tuesday to host a panel on the American middle class.

The town hall-style forum, called "Building a Strong Middle Class Through a Green Economy," will take place at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Tickets will be available to the public, but details on how to obtain them have not yet been released.

Speakers will include U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack; and Deputy U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman.

The forum will be the fourth official meeting of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, headed by Biden. The task force is aimed at raising the living standards of middle-class, working families, a White House Web site said.

The Denver forum follows a discussion the panel had in Philadelphia on the vision of green jobs, and "will start looking at how those possibilities are becoming reality and how the full potential of that vision can be reached," the site said.

On Wednesday, Biden will deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The academy held a giveaway last week for the 500 tickets to the event that were available to the public.

Also on Tuesday, Biden's wife will visit the Lowry campus of the Community College of Aurora. Jill Biden will tour the school's Simulated Emergency Medical Services Program facility and speak with college administrators, students and graduates, White House officials said Friday.

The visit is part of her work to highlight the Obama administration's commitment to the country's community colleges and their students.

Jill Biden is a professor at Northern Virginia Community College and previously taught English at Delaware Technical & Community College for 15 years.