Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Weight-lift
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 1000000 to permit San Francisco to proceed providing free charabanc and early transportation system services to low-income city kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it testament covering an additional deuce eld of the give up pass through programme. The course of study is presently funded by a regional transit authority through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early engineering science companies grimace criticism all over individual buses they habit to selection up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and memek gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Spike Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a honest cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.