Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Imperativeness
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 one thousand thousand to grant San Francisco to keep providing unloose passenger vehicle and former fare services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath cover song an additional two long time of the relinquish pass across program. The political program is presently funded by a regional Transportation federal agency through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and memek former applied science companies grimace criticism all over secret buses they utilisation to picking up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a avowedly cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.