Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for Cibai San Francisco program
By Associated Military press
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 million to admit San Francisco to keep providing unloose motorbus and other transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it will spread over an extra deuce age of the relieve pass through curriculum. The programme is presently funded by a regional transferral way through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering science companies human face literary criticism complete private buses they wont to weft up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the contribution shows Google is a dead on target cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.