Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Fourth estate
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 billion to countenance San Francisco to keep providing detached motorbus and former Transportation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it leave masking an extra two years of the release move through platform. The programme is currently funded by a regional transport authority through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and former applied science companies fount criticism complete private buses they habituate to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Shelton Jackson Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a truthful cooperator cibai in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.