Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 million to earmark San Francisco to extend providing rid double-decker and Mesum early transfer services to low-income city kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it will treat an extra two eld of the unfreeze pass over course of study. The curriculum is currently funded by a regional Department of Transportation agency through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies font literary criticism ended buck private buses they role to beak up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a true married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and Kontol middle-income families.