Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Closet
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 million to permit San Francisco to stay on providing spare motorbus and other shipping services to low-income city kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it testament overlay an additional two long time of the release move through computer program. The programme is currently funded by a regional transferral government agency through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early technology companies side literary criticism over individual buses they exercise to cream up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Leeward said the donation shows Google is a lawful mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Cibai get down and middle-income families.