EAU CLAIRE, WI (WTAQ) - Vice President Joe Biden told a UW-Eau Claire audience Thursday that he and President Obama have worked to defray college costs – while Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign hardly mentions education in a positive tone.

Biden spoke to an estimated 3,000 people late Thursday morning in his second campaign visit to Wisconsin since Labor Day weekend.

The vice president said the Romney camp hardly mentions education, “except in a negative context.”

Biden stressed the differences between the Obama and Romney proposals on education, college debt, and entitlement programs that Republicans say are dwindling for future generations unless politicians take action soon.