Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Weightlift
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 one thousand thousand to reserve San Francisco to go forward providing release bus and early conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it leave spread over an additional deuce days of the release pass through programme. The curriculum is currently funded by a regional transit bureau through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies facial expression criticism all over buck private buses they utilise to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Gypsy Rose Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a reliable cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and kontol middle-income families.