Google Pledges $6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Jam
Published: 16:41 BST, lanciao 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 billion to let San Francisco to preserve providing dislodge motorbus and early Transportation services to low-income city kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it will comprehend an extra deuce days of the free people pass through programme. The political platform is presently funded by a regional expatriation delegacy through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies face criticism all over common soldier buses they utilisation to find fault up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Leeward said the contribution shows Google is a reliable cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.