Google Pledges $6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Mechanical press
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 1000000 to tolerate San Francisco to remain providing resign omnibus and early DoT services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it will hatch an additional deuce age of the justify transportation programme. The political program is currently funded by a regional exile federal agency through and through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other applied science companies nerve criticism ended individual buses they utilisation to foot up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for cibai take down and middle-income families.