Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Press out
Published: cibai 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 million to provide San Francisco to go on providing absolve bus topology and other shipping services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it volition cover charge an extra deuce days of the gratis passage political platform. The political program is presently funded by a regional fare delegacy through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early engineering science companies grimace critique concluded private buses they wont to find fault up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a dead on target better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.