{"id":23739,"date":"2026-06-14T03:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/google-joins-skilled-trades-training-wave-commits-50-million-homepros\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T03:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:37:54","slug":"google-joins-skilled-trades-training-wave-commits-50-million-homepros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/google-joins-skilled-trades-training-wave-commits-50-million-homepros\/","title":{"rendered":"Google joins skilled trades training wave, commits $50 million &#8211; Homepros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Adobe<br \/>Google on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/company-news\/outreach-and-initiatives\/google-org\/skilled-trades\/\">announced<\/a> that it will invest $50 million to help train over 300,000 skilled trades workers across more than 20 states.<br \/><strong>What\u2019s happening:<\/strong> The funding, committed by the company\u2019s philanthropic arm, \u201cwill go directly to the training experts who build these programs from the ground up,\u201d the announcement states.&nbsp;<br \/><strong>The big picture: <\/strong>Earlier in the week, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Facebook-parent Meta committed a combined $205 million toward similar initiatives, bringing the total of skilled trades investments announced over the past 90 days to $555 million, as Homepros recently <a href=\"https:\/\/homepros.news\/americas-skilled-trades-moment-philanthropy-big-tech-and-wall-street-pledge-555-million\/\">reported<\/a>. Google\u2019s pledge pushes that figure to over $600 million.&nbsp;<br \/><strong>What they\u2019re saying:<\/strong> \u201cNo single entity can solve this American workforce shortage on its own,\u201d Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/company-news\/outreach-and-initiatives\/google-org\/skilled-trades\/\">wrote<\/a> Thursday. \u201cThere needs to be engagement across industry, civil society, and government, so we can build modern on-the-job training and expand apprenticeships together.\u201d<br \/>Shipments of gas water heaters declined by 11.6 percent year-over-year during the month, while electric water heater shipments slid 4.6 percent<br \/>The company saw North American sales volumes drop during the quarter, along with soft residential demand, a company spokesman said Tuesday<br \/>&quot;The homeowner in a relative sense is perhaps more protected financially than other customer cohorts, and so we continue to see engagement,&quot; said Home Depot&#039;s CFO<br \/>Join tens of thousands of executives and get the home service industries&#039; biggest news and trends right in your inbox, for free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxNMGVqUWNMWmh0RFlIZmdhMmM0dHhaa2xScm1UcUlfdGlYWWFxaDNSVjVITkh0dldoX2phaWpKRWo1TloxTTIyckFuNzUzbGZWNlFlek1Ta3l3UkdadVBPbnNVaVZUQkVidEtIMUM2SnNDeHB6QmVMYzJzanRaeGdobWdHYm4wbzdSbUc0?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: AdobeGoogle on Thursday announced that it will invest $50 million to help train over 300,000 skilled trades workers across more than 20 states.What\u2019s happening: The funding, committed by the company\u2019s philanthropic arm, \u201cwill go directly to the training experts who build these programs from the ground up,\u201d the announcement states.&nbsp;The big picture: Earlier in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}