Gina Raimondo and Eric Holcomb launch RAISE US, a bipartisan initiative backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Bank of America and Amazon to pilot retraining and worker-support programs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland and Utah with $500K in private seed funding.Raimondo, drawing on family experience after her father lost his job in the 1980s, says the effort will coordinate short-term training, placement and portable benefits with state partners and cautions that large-scale displacement may still be gradual.She confirms discussions with Acting Labor Secretary
Keith Sonderling, warns against government ownership stakes in AI firms, and says she is focused on
RAISE US rather than a political comeback.