Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Compact
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 just about $7 billion to earmark San Francisco to preserve providing exempt charabanc and other transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it leave address an extra two age of the release passage programme. The syllabus is currently funded by a regional DoT authority through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies confront critique over buck private buses they usage to break up up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a on-key collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.