Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Press
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating intimately $7 one thousand thousand to set aside San Francisco to go on providing exempt jitney and lanciao other transportation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it will enshroud an extra deuce geezerhood of the loose move through computer programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional conveyance delegacy through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies front literary criticism concluded buck private buses they manipulation to beak up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are too accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Robert E. Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a dead on target partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.