{"id":1014136,"date":"2026-06-12T12:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014136"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:39:11","slug":"as-google-pledges-to-donate-50-million-to-train-300000-american-workers-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-americas-digital-economy-relies-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/as-google-pledges-to-donate-50-million-to-train-300000-american-workers-ceo-sundar-pichai-says-americas-digital-economy-relies-on\/","title":{"rendered":"As Google pledges to donate $50 million to train 300,000 American workers, CEO Sundar Pichai says \u2018America\u2019s digital economy relies on \u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a new $50 million commitment to help train 300,000 workers across the United States for skilled trade jobs. The funding will come through Google.org and will support training programs for electricians, welders, plumbers, pipefitters, manufacturing workers, fiber technicians and other skilled trades. Announcing the initiative, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the country&#8217;s digital economy depends not only on technology but also on the workers who build and maintain the infrastructure that powers it. The move expands Google&#8217;s broader workforce development efforts, which have already surpassed $1 billion in global training and skills programs since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America\u2019s digital economy relies on our physical infrastructure and the electricians, pipefitters, welders, manufacturing workers &amp; more who build and maintain it,&#8221; Sundar Pichai wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced a new $50 million commitment to help train 300,000 workers across the United States for skilled trade jobs. The funding will come through Google.org and will support training programs for electricians, welders, plumbers, pipefitters, manufacturing workers, fiber technicians and other skilled trades. Announcing the initiative, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the country&#8217;s digital economy depends not only on technology but also on the workers who build and maintain the infrastructure that powers it. The move expands Google&#8217;s broader workforce development efforts, which have already surpassed $1 billion in global training and skills programs since 2022. &#8220;America\u2019s digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014138,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014136\/revisions\/1014138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}