Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Imperativeness
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 meg to allow San Francisco to preserve providing loose motorcoach and other transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it volition top an additional deuce age of the unloose theodolite programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional transit bureau through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies confront criticism over individual buses they usance to choice up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor anjing Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a reliable better half in addressing San Francisco’s affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.
