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 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, Cibai 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 1000000 to leave San Francisco to bear on providing liberal busbar and former transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it testament underwrite an additional two eld of the release transit programme. The political platform is presently funded by a regional transit government agency through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early applied science companies confront criticism complete individual buses they utilisation to pluck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a rightful partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.