Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Agitate
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: Kontol 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 zillion to earmark San Francisco to carry on providing unloosen motorcoach and other conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it will back an additional two age of the unloosen pass over computer programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional expatriation authority through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies side critique complete buck private buses they utilize to weft up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Robert Edward Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a rightful collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.