"It's time that we stop treating child care as a side issue, or as a quote-unquote women's issue, this is a family issue," Obama said on Thursday at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. "This is a national economic priority for all of us."
Obama spoke to a crowd of 7,100 at a football practice facility at the school, the second of two stops in Republican-dominated states to follow up on the themes of his State of the Union address on Tuesday. In the final two years of his presidency, Obama is focusing on closing the income gap and presenting it as a bipartisan issue.
The two states Obama visited Wednesday and Thursday, Kansas and Idaho, backed the Republicans presidential candidate by wide margins in the last two elections, when Obama was the Democratic choice. The White House said that was intended to show the president's policies cross party lines.
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