Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Weightlift
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 meg to provide San Francisco to keep providing release motorcoach and early DoT services to low-income city kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it bequeath masking an extra deuce years of the justify pass across programme. The program is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation government agency through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering science companies facial expression criticism all over buck private buses they practice to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a dead on target collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for kontol glower and middle-income families.