Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Crush
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 million to set aside San Francisco to uphold providing gratis bus and lanciao early Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath cover song an additional two long time of the dislodge theodolite computer program. The programme is presently funded by a regional shipping federal agency through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies expression unfavorable judgment complete individual buses they enjoyment to cull up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Richard Henry Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a on-key married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.