Verizon announced a $70 million investment in Verizon AI Skills for America, a nationwide initiative aimed at job seekers, early-career professionals, displaced workers, educators, and small businesses, delivered in partnership with organizations including Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, and Goodwill Industries International.
Large corporate upskilling commitments like this one are partly genuine workforce investment and partly a hedge against the political and regulatory pressure that's likely to follow if AI-driven job displacement continues at 2026's pace; either way, the dollar figure gives a concrete benchmark against which to measure whether the same companies follow through at similar scale next year.