Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Conjure
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating about $7 zillion to permit San Francisco to keep providing unloose jitney and early transport services to low-income city kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and Memek aforementioned it volition overcompensate an additional two geezerhood of the liberal transportation system program. The programme is currently funded by a regional Transportation representation through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former engineering science companies grimace literary criticism all over common soldier buses they function to peck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are as well accused of driving up rents and Memek gentrifying the city.
San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee said the donation shows Google is a avowedly cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.