Guest good morning. About yourou tell us journey and that you represent Silicon Valley and what it means . An extraordinary district. Apple, google, cisco, linkedin, the heart of innovation for the nation and in some instances, the world. One of the thing we are focused on is who has been left behind from the Technology Revolution . How do we bring tech not only in my district but across the country . How do we prepare people for the jobs of the future . To dowhat is the best way it and the best way for the congress and white house to do it . I am in march going to appellation, western kentucky. There is a program, 40 folks, some sons and daughters of coal miners, a four month class, they are learning ios software and after four months, they are going to have a form was apprenticeship and then have jobs. The challenge is to figure out not just trained in the abstract but the right skill that are going to lead to jobs. It does not always mean for your degrees but working to figure out w
Cable Television Companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host and this week on the communicators we want to introduce you to one of the newest members from Silicon Valley. This is representative ro khanna whos a democrat from california. Representative khanna, tell us about your district. Guest its an extraordinary district. Its the heart of Silicon Valley, so you have apple, google, intel, yahoo , cisco, linkedin, tesla all in the district, and its one of the only majority asianamerican districts in the nation. So its one of the most diverse nations. Theres a huge caucasian population, chineseamerican, indianamerican, filipinoamerican, vietnameseamerican, latino, africanamerican be, so its an extraordinary place to represent. Host how would you describe the relationship between Silicon Valley and washington . Guest well, its, its an emerging relationship. I think there is somewhat of a frustration in the valley with the type of bureaucracy in washing
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Forming a bond without ever meeting in person â The Bedfont Lakes âQuaranternsâ and Graduates
In collaboration with Emily Cousins
Traditionally, the graduates and interns who join Cisco and work at our Bedfont Lakes office form tight-knit bonds with each other. It is what takes them away on holidays together, after work get-togethers, and cosmic mini-golfing, go-karting, or fancy team dinners. It s a family unit forged in the shared experiences of starting a new chapter in their lives. When all these in-person moments dissipated with the onslaught of a pandemic, some worried that the incoming interns and graduates might not get that experience.