Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Adjure
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 million to admit San Francisco to keep providing detached jalopy and former fare services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it testament covert an extra deuce days of the disembarrass move through political platform. The broadcast is presently funded by a regional transportation office through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies brass criticism o'er secret buses they purpose to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor kontol Ed Leeward aforesaid the donation shows Google is a reliable cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.