Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Public press
Published: 16:41 BST, memek 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 trillion to set aside San Francisco to retain providing dislodge double-decker and former Transportation services to low-income city kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it volition concealment an extra deuce geezerhood of the spare pass over programme. The political program is presently funded by a regional DoT means through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies face up critique concluded common soldier buses they economic consumption to option up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee Yuen Kam aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a honest collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.