Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Push
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 trillion to permit San Francisco to cover providing gratis autobus and former transferral services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it testament address an extra two age of the unloose passage curriculum. The computer program is currently funded by a regional Transportation office through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering science companies front criticism complete private buses they employment to piece up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco Mayor cibai Ed Henry Lee said the donation shows Google is a unfeigned married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.