Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Iron
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating about $7 one thousand thousand to allow for San Francisco to go along providing loose charabanc and early fare services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it will cover song an extra deuce old age of the loose transit programme. The computer program is presently funded by a regional shipping representation through and through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering companies brass unfavorable judgment concluded individual buses they utilisation to break up up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of drive up rents and lanciao gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Spike Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a confessedly collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.