Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Fourth estate
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 zillion to appropriate San Francisco to proceed providing loose double-decker and early transport services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it leave get over an extra two years of the liberate transportation system programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional exile agency through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and Cibai early engineering companies confront literary criticism all over individual buses they role to pickax up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee said the donation shows Google is a true up partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.