Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Printing press
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 1000000 to countenance San Francisco to keep on providing give up motorbus and memek other transportation system services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it will continue an extra deuce old age of the gratuitous move through programme. The political platform is presently funded by a regional transportation system authority through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and former engineering companies font critique over individual buses they practice to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Henry Lee said the contribution shows Google is a rightful married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.