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Biden to urge mayors to spend more Covid-19 aid to build city workforces

US president will call to spend more on worker training programs, apprenticeships, education and child care.

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President Joe Biden will urge US mayors on Friday to use more of their state and local COVID-19 aid funds to expand their workforces, a White House official said, an effort partly aimed at easing economic bottlenecks and inflation.

In an address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting on Friday in Washington, Biden will call to spend more on worker training programs, apprenticeships, education and child care to help develop a stronger workforce and reduce income inequality, the official told Reuters.

Cities have wide-ranging ability to use money from the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Relief Fund, which was

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