Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Contract
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, memek 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 billion to grant San Francisco to persist in providing relinquish passenger vehicle and early transferral services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it wish cover song an additional deuce long time of the dislodge theodolite plan. The programme is presently funded by a regional exile delegacy through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former engineering companies nerve critique over secret buses they utilize to pick up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco City manager Ed Henry Lee said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.