There's nothing socialist about it. It's politician thinking - how can I ma ximise the number of votes I get at the next election?
Proper democratic socialists - as opposed to the examples the US media put forward as examples of socialism - take jobs and productivity very seriousl y.
Part of the socialist doctrine in Germany is maximising worker productivity by getting everybody as much training as possible - which gives the German work force a higher proportion of tertiary trained participants than any o ther countries.
The US, meanwhile finances its primary and secondary education system with property taxes collected within individual school districts, which means a lot of variation in expenditure on education from school district to school district, and a lot of under-educated kids in poorer school districts.
The French revolution was about liberty, equality and fraternity. James Art hur has a lot to say about liberty, but he seems mainly concerned to be at liberty from paying the taxes that equality and fraternity call for.