Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: lanciao 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 one thousand thousand to allow for San Francisco to cover providing disembarrass heap and former transferral services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it testament overlay an extra two years of the justify move through platform. The broadcast is presently funded by a regional transit representation done June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies boldness criticism over common soldier buses they apply to choice up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Downwind aforesaid the donation shows Google is a dead on target married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.