Biden hits the road to promote importance of college education.(tracking trends)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- (AP)Getting into college and being able to pay for it are essential to staying on the middleclass track, Vice President Joe Biden told a college audience.

"The president and I believe there is no better ticket to the middle class than a college education," Biden told about 1,000 people inside Goldstein Auditorium at Syracuse University, where he attended law school.

Biden appeared along with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Education Secretary Arne Duncan as part of the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families. The task force has held town hall-style meetings across the country focusing on raising the living standards of middle-class, …