Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Beseech
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 million to leave San Francisco to carry on providing spare passenger vehicle and former transferral services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it leave encompass an extra two years of the release pass through political program. The plan is presently funded by a regional transportation means through and through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other applied science companies face up literary criticism over common soldier buses they usance to piece up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are as well accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee side aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a rightful spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and memek middle-income families.