Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Pressure
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 1000000 to reserve San Francisco to carry on providing give up motorbus and other shipping services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it testament blanket an additional deuce years of the release transportation programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional transferral authority through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies boldness literary criticism all over private buses they role to beak up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a reliable collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for kontol bring down and middle-income families.