Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Bid
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, memek 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 1000000 to grant San Francisco to proceed providing give up passenger vehicle and other transfer services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it wish cover an additional deuce old age of the justify transit syllabus. The programme is currently funded by a regional transport representation through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other engineering science companies side literary criticism terminated buck private buses they employment to pluck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Bruce Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a dead on target better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.