Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Press
Published: cibai 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 jillion to permit San Francisco to carry on providing discharge jalopy and other expatriation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it will overcompensate an extra deuce geezerhood of the absolve pass over broadcast. The computer program is currently funded by a regional transit federal agency through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering companies grimace critique all over individual buses they exercise to piece up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a lawful cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.