Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for Kontol San Francisco program
By Associated Beseech
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 1000000 to tolerate San Francisco to go on providing loose heap and other DoT services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it leave brood an additional two geezerhood of the free people transportation system syllabus. The programme is presently funded by a regional exile office through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early engineering science companies face critique o'er secret buses they consumption to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee said the contribution shows Google is a reliable pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.