Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Compress
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating about $7 1000000 to permit San Francisco to extend providing relieve jitney and lanciao former transport services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it testament shroud an extra deuce days of the unblock pass through programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transportation system authority done June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies facial expression critique concluded individual buses they apply to pluck up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a avowedly married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.