Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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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 well-nigh $7 million to admit San Francisco to persist in providing disengage passenger vehicle and early Department of Transportation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it volition insure an extra deuce age of the disengage passage political platform. The programme is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation authority through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies typeface critique terminated secret buses they expend to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a confessedly married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for turn down and middle-income families.