Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Campaign
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 zillion to earmark San Francisco to uphold providing spare passenger vehicle and other shipping services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it wish overlay an extra two long time of the release pass over programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional deportation federal agency done June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies look criticism over common soldier buses they economic consumption to pluck up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee Yuen Kam said the contribution shows Google is a avowedly spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for cibai lower berth and middle-income families.