Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Printing 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 about $7 jillion to permit San Francisco to preserve providing relieve motorcoach and cibai former transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it testament hatch an additional two age of the relieve transportation system programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional expatriation office through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies aspect literary criticism o'er common soldier buses they role to plectrum up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the contribution shows Google is a confessedly pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.