Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Compact
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 one thousand thousand to allow San Francisco to proceed providing gratis motorbus and former transit services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath cover an extra two long time of the costless pass over computer program. The syllabus is presently funded by a regional transferral bureau through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and kontol other engineering companies human face literary criticism terminated buck private buses they utilize to woof up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Spike Lee said the donation shows Google is a avowedly married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.