Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Wardrobe
Published: 16:41 BST, lanciao 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 trillion to set aside San Francisco to persist in providing disengage motorcoach and former deportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it leave cover up an additional two geezerhood of the costless transit programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional transfer bureau through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies confront criticism ended buck private buses they utilization to weft up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a dead on target mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.