Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Closet
Published: Mesum 16:41 BST, Memek 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 billion to allow San Francisco to extend providing relieve busbar and former transit services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath get across an extra two years of the gratis transit political program. The plan is currently funded by a regional transit representation through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies aspect criticism terminated individual buses they usage to nibble up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of impulsive up rents and Mesum gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a reliable mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.