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Watch how GE employees in Schenectady help power cities, schools, businesses…and even beer.

GE employees in Louisville’s Appliance Park show us how they’re changing the way appliances are manufactured in the U.S., and how it’s helping to create jobs.

The GE Foundation, the philanthropic arm of GE, announces an $18 million grant to Student Achievement Partners, a nonprofit organization to provide critical implementation support for Common Core State Standards across the U.S. The four-year grant is the largest corporate commitment to date for the Common Core State Standards and reflects GE’s longstanding dedication to preparing American students for an increasingly competitive workforce.

GE calls it the “industrial Internet.” It’s about giving machines such as power plant turbines, jet engines, and manufacturing equipment an online connection so they can constantly send back performance information, which is analyzed to automatically alert technicians when there’s a problem. GE predicts a multibillion-dollar-a-year business selling software to support this industrial Internet, a business it projects can grow at double-digit rates through 2015. GE is staking $1 billion on this idea with a new global software center in Silicon Valley, where up to 400 people will build and market software to serve the industrial Internet.

The rising global and domestic demand for GE’s high technology products has been powering the company’s U.S. manufacturing expansion and job creation. GE has announced plans to create 13,000 new jobs in the United States since 2009. Yesterday that number grew by another 150 openings as the company’s GE Transportation unit said that it would hire up to 150 new workers and invest over $70 million to open a new plant and upgrade existing facilities in Grove City, Pennsylvania.