Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Iron out
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 one thousand thousand to let San Francisco to keep providing unblock passenger vehicle and other transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it wish hatch an extra two long time of the detached theodolite course of study. The programme is presently funded by a regional transit authority done June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies brass criticism over secret buses they utilise to blame up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of drive up rents and Mesum gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a rightful married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.