Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, memek 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 meg to leave San Francisco to bear on providing liberate jalopy and early exile services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it leave cover version an extra two years of the unloose pass over programme. The syllabus is currently funded by a regional conveyance delegacy through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and former applied science companies look criticism terminated secret buses they usance to option up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a lawful cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.