(York) -- Vice President Joe Biden is drumming up support for the president’s American Jobs Act at a visit to a midstate school. Biden paid a visit to York's Alexander Goode Elementary School to talk about how the plan would create 400,000 education jobs across the country. "This legislation we’re pushing would provide Pennsylvania alone with $1.15 million in funds to support 14,400 education jobs y’all lost," Biden said. A couple dozen people stood outside the school to catch a glimpse of Biden coming or leaving. Jan Matthews of York, lists the companies that have left the city since she graduated in 1983 - like Caterpillar, and Consolidated Freightways. "This is an industrial place. This was known for industrial. They done took out Dupont, Peter Paul, I mean, everything, they just took every job that we had," Matthews said. The vice president spoke later in the day in Philadelphia. President Obama is asking Congress to pass pieces of his $447 billion jobs package, which failed in the U.S. Senate last week.