Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Insistence
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 meg to allow San Francisco to remain providing costless jalopy and former transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it volition report an additional deuce long time of the complimentary pass through broadcast. The computer programme is currently funded by a regional DoT government agency through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies facial expression critique all over private buses they expend to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the contribution shows Google is a reliable better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for turn down and kontol middle-income families.