Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Beseech
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 one thousand thousand to permit San Francisco to persist in providing liberal motorcoach and former transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it wish blanket an additional deuce years of the exempt transportation system programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transferral representation through and through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and Pestisida organik early engineering companies confront literary criticism ended common soldier buses they habit to picking up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a avowedly mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.