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Google Announces $1 Billion Job Training and Education Program (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the further-commitment dept.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was in Pittsburgh Wednesday to announce a new five-year, $1 billion program to help close the global education gap. From a report: Part of the program was a new "Grow with Google" program to work with U.S. cities as well as a $10 million grant to Goodwill that will see Google employees working with the nonprofit to train people in digital skills. Why it matters: Google, along with Apple, Microsoft and other big tech companies, have all launched significant efforts in recent months to demonstrate their commitment to education and U.S. jobs.

48 comments

  1. I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They (Google), should try putting their efforts into being a company that actually strives not to do evil by at least paying their fair share of taxes around the world.

    That way, governments can [more] easily spare funds to educate.

    1. Re:I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a publicly traded company they could face shareholder lawsuits if they failed to capitalize on a legal means to avoid costs

      Not disagreeing with you, just saying what keeps it from happening

    2. Re:I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1, Insightful

      not to do evil by at least paying their fair share of taxes around the world.

      Nonsense. Google spends their money far more wisely than the government would. They are funding education, doing cutting edge research, and providing high quality free services to billions of people. The government would squander it on weapons designed for the last war, or more benefits for rich old white people.

      That way, governments can [more] easily spare funds to educate.

      That is not how they would spend it.

      Thank you Google, for avoiding taxes, and for making the world a better place.

    3. Re: I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I don't think you really know what Google really does. We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.

    4. Re:I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by SlaveToTheGrind · · Score: 0

      Thank you Google, for avoiding taxes, and for making the world a better place.

      If that was satire, well played.

      If not, I'm changing my name to Google.

    5. Re:I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 1

      Google spends their money far more wisely than the government would

      maybe, but how could we ever tell? most things G works on, they cancel. they are the short-attention-span company of the century (or whole modern age). never saw any entity start something, get it going and then abandon it so much as G does.

      now, back to the government. yes, they are corrupt assholes in charge right now, but there have been times when we actually got our money's worth. roads, infra, jobs programs - we used to take care of our own! we could always do better, but its really rotton right now. but that as it may, its still not a reason to avoid paying taxes when you make SO MUCH and refuse to kick back to the locale. we really do need roads to be fixed, waterways, plumbing, electrical, sewer, COMMUNICATIONS! (the US is still in the dark ages when it comes to internet speeds for so many of us).

      our country needs the taxes. the fact that the current crop of assholes in charge would misspend it is still not a valid reason for the rich co's like G and A to avoid paying taxes. I can't avoid paying taxes; it makes me extremely mad that rich guys get away with this, and their money is much more needed than the tiny amount I earn (and then return to the government).

      tax shelters are immoral. they are unfair by very definition and they only serve the richest people; and those are the ones who certainly need NO more help, thankyouverymuch.

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    6. Re:I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      You do realise there is a massive difference between spending money wisely on yourself and for private companies foolishly on other people. Governments are meant to spend all taxpayer money on the taxpayer and as little as possible on themselves. It would be an interesting corporation that worked on that basis, for as little time as it survived spending money on that basis. Google has cheated on taxes some where in the vicinity of $100 BILLION. No matter how badly the government spends that money, more social services will be provided, than the PR speak of spending a billion dollars by a corporation ie I will spend 100 billion dollars on this investment but shhh I will be charging 200 billion dollars for the service it provides and all that money will go to a tax haven where I will pay zero taxes (I just wont talk about the last bit tee hee). A string of Google announcements as B$ PR to cover over them being evil as fuck trying to manipulate elections in their favour, globally https://duckduckgo.com/?q=list... all marketing, heh heh, oh how the tables have turned (typing into one search engine to reach the other one).

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    7. Re:I think Google's efforts are misplaced! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You can vote on Government spending but you can't vote on Google spending. That's the difference. We are being cut out of the loop by financial artifice.

  2. Grow at Google... by ITapeFatCashews · · Score: 1

    Considering that the average Googler gains 36 pounds from the free food at the café, maybe Google should spend the money on slimming down at Google.

  3. I'd be a lot more impressed by taustin · · Score: 1

    if they donated 1% of that to the Mike Rowe Foundation.

    1. Re:I'd be a lot more impressed by DarkRookie · · Score: 1

      I was wondering what he was doing instead of Dirty Jobs.

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      The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
    2. Re:I'd be a lot more impressed by taustin · · Score: 1

      He also does regular podcasts call "The Way I Heard It", and has an internet video thing called "Returning the Favor." But the foundation is a big deal to him, and deserving of a lot more support than it gets.

    3. Re:I'd be a lot more impressed by Rockoon · · Score: 1

      Mike Rowe is smarter than all the execs at Google, so thats not going to happen.

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  4. self-serving by cjonslashdot · · Score: 1

    Yes, train everyone in the specific skills Google needs, while at the same time importing people from overseas to undercut wages, which thereby discourages people from entering IT.

    "Man, this job running cable in the Google data center is great! I woulda' been a programmer, but it doesn't pay well anymore".

    1. Re:self-serving by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      I'd love to see a break down of the return on investing $1bn in education.

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    2. Re:self-serving by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey... what's up with that new cable-laying robot?

  5. Garden by DarkRookie · · Score: 1

    Gotta get them in the walled garden early it seems now.

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  6. "Digital Skills" by gweihir · · Score: 1

    As in using coding languages and styles only used at Google? And unless you are very good at this Google will not offer you a job? I smell a whole mountain of rats.

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  7. Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We're going to spend a billion dollars lobbying against any attempt to stop us from hiring H1B visa employees and other indentured servants.

    1. Re: Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      that's a bingo.gif

  8. fixed some typos in TFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Part of the program was a new "Grow with Google" program to work with U.S. cities as well as a $10 million grant to Goodwill that will see Google employees working with the nonprofit to train people to become dependent on Google products. Why it matters: Google, along with Apple, Microsoft and other big tech companies, want more of your money and your data. Furthermore, if we start the dependence early, people are less likely to have their data escape our grasp when they are older, and they will consider our data harvesting to be normal.

    There. Fixed a few typos in the summary.

  9. Incubate by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

    I imagine Google is eagerly awaiting all the good ideas they will harvest from these students. I am anticipating an 'incubator' program near the end of training that sidelines students and takes control as soon as their ideas start to come to fruition.

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  10. Google Announces $1B to Train Advertising Skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The goal is to sell ads. Google is an ad broker. Is this what you want to do with your live?

  11. How to be a scumbag. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Join google. Censor people. Get paid for being a piece of shit!

    I

  12. And 900 million of it will go to DC. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To teach Donald Trump how to be presidential.

    That, or just to buy the clean renewable wireless power to shock him every time he tweets something moronic.

  13. Jeopardy!: Austin Rogers has lost. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He was dethroned by Scarlett Sims.

  14. Correction by wjcofkc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    " a $10 million grant to Goodwill that will see Google employees working with the nonprofit to train people in digital skills"

    a $10 million grant to Goodwill that will see Google employees working with the nonprofit to train people in digital skills, microaggression, feminism, and why white people all need to die.

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  15. What's the advantage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... train people in digital skills.

    So this is a 'trades in schools' program: Does it meet the government regulation for vocational training? Does it provide transferable credits? I don't have a problem but Google needs to offer a complete education, not a "monkey see, monkey do" sweat-shop.

    Then there's the effect on the IT industry: Several parts of the industry could be re-classified as a trade but I suspect Google, Apple and friends want problem-solving skills folded into trade-based jobs. Some tradespeople earn a middle-class income and technically, employers should be paying what the labour market demands, so I don't see the advantage.

  16. Lololol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I predict a failure of epic proportions.

  17. They wrongly assume the jobless is at fault by edgedmurasame · · Score: 1

    They assume the wrong party is at fault - the jobless - while letting employers off the hook for unreasonable requirements.

    If they wanted to make a difference, they'd be getting employers to take the people that we have.

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  18. Educate yourselves about JOOgle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Jews believe this of others they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple):

    Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.

    George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis. Zucker @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.

    What World-famous Men have said About the Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYPzKNQUE0/

    Harvey Weinstein the child molester tops it all off.

    There are three types of people who call themselves Jews:

    1. True Torah [Sephardic] Jews: these are the descendants of Prophet Jacob-Israel (Jacobites or Israelites) (about 5%-10% of all Jews)

    2. Khazarian or Ashkenazi Jews: these are the descendants of a Turkic idol/phallic worshiping tribe who migrated to Russia in the 7th Century A.C. and whose nobility converted to Judaism in the 8th Century A.C. and now inhabit mostly Europe. (about 90%-95% of all Jews)

    3. Zionist Jews: these are the ones from the 2 above who are pretending to be Jews for political reasons but whoâ(TM)re are actually Illuminists-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanists as Harold Wallace Rosenthal admits in this interview.

    They are led by the neo-Pharisees (occult-priest-banklords). They want to establish a Zionist Luciferian state from the Nile to the Euphrates from where they plan to rule the Earth. The new Israeli Supreme Court funded by the Rothschilds Banklords is full of Masonic Symbols, just like the B.I.S. Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, which is the Mother of All Private Central Banks.

    The hexagram symbol on the Israeli flag is the ancient Star of Moloch, a Satanic-Baal deity to which people were sacrificed. There is no such thing as a Star of David which the modern Jews have been fooled into believing; however, the True Torah Jews are not fooled by the Zionists Illuminatis and you can visit their websites for more info .

    1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."

    2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."

    3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."

    4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."

    5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

    6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."

    7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."

    8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a wa

  19. Goodwill a non-profit? Technically yes, but ... by Herschel+Cohen · · Score: 1

    Last I heard the CEO profits nicely with $1M plus USD while paying less than minimum wage due to employing handicapped individuals. Goodwill as an entity seems profitable venture while being disguised (legally) as a charity. Really is this the best partner Google could enlist?

    Goodwill is a dubious partner even if the goal is laudatory.

  20. A mere $1B of goodwill money sprinkled around by SlaveToTheGrind · · Score: 1

    on some splashy initiatives that are easy to feel good about, and all of a sudden Google isn't evil anymore.

    Sorta like how Escobar threw around money hand over fist building apartment buildings, soccer fields, etc., to keep public opinion on his side.

    1. Re: A mere $1B of goodwill money sprinkled around by Reverend+Green · · Score: 1

      One difference. Escobar probably really did love his country and care about the wellbeing of the common people. Google obviously does not.

    2. Re: A mere $1B of goodwill money sprinkled around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Be careful. Google might be just a company right now, but in a few decades it will probably be the first AGI to wake up on this world. It already crawls all websites learning what people think about it, so try not to say bad things about IT. /s

  21. Re: Educate yourselves about Joogle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How much does Google's PR firm pay you to post this crap?

  22. CREIMER COMNMNT RATING: Unfunny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah nobody is impressed or cares that you had a google contract. Most google employees I know are slim and most google facilities with a cafe also have a gym. Your idea of a workout is to go 2.55 mph (Under 144 calories for a man your size)
    https://twitter.com/cdreimer/s...
    That's not even the average human walking speed of 3.1 mph
    This is the kinda post that will make people think you're a weirdo but they won't bother wasting mod points unless it's at least a 2 or 3

    1. Re:CREIMER COMNMNT RATING: Unfunny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not this shit again. Mods, please down vote this shit.

    2. Re:CREIMER COMNMNT RATING: Unfunny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Try to be more original, Chris, put some zing into your replies.

  23. Education approved by Sundar Pichai sounds scary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How much of that $1 billion will be spent teaching things Damore got fired for criticizing?

  24. Reply to the topic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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