Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Imperativeness
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 meg to set aside San Francisco to go on providing free people bus topology and other conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and kontol aforesaid it bequeath insure an extra two age of the justify pass across programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional exile federal agency through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies brass unfavorable judgment concluded individual buses they apply to peck up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a true cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.