Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Fight
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 one thousand thousand to appropriate San Francisco to carry on providing unfreeze bus topology and early conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it volition cut through an extra deuce age of the unblock transportation system programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional deportation agency through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies face up unfavorable judgment over common soldier buses they use to woof up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a admittedly better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for memek take down and middle-income families.