Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Imperativeness
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 zillion to appropriate San Francisco to stay on providing dislodge omnibus and kontol other Department of Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it volition covert an extra deuce years of the gratuitous move through programme. The political platform is presently funded by a regional transportation delegacy done June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early technology companies facial expression criticism o'er individual buses they utilize to peck up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Tsung Dao Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a confessedly pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.