{"id":26909,"date":"2020-07-14T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T23:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26909"},"modified":"2020-07-14T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T23:40:02","slug":"google-funding-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26909","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE FUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google plans to fund 100,000 need-based career certification scholarships to assist workers in finding jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Walker, Google\u2019s senior vice president of global affairs, said in a release that the tech giant&#8217;s new suite of Google Career Certificates includes the fields of data analytics, project management and user experience design.<\/p>\n<p>Participants do not need a college degree or prior experience for the program, and Google considers the certificate itself equivalent to a four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollege degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn\u2019t need a college diploma to have economic security,\u201d Walker said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need new, accessible job-training solutions \u2014 from enhanced vocational programs to online education \u2014 to help America recover and rebuild,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The certificate programs take about six months to complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google plans to fund 100,000 need-based&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26910,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions\/26910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}