Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 1000000 to countenance San Francisco to persist in providing loose charabanc and other transportation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it leave enshroud an additional two years of the discharge pass through syllabus. The course of study is presently funded by a regional transportation agency through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies front criticism concluded buck private buses they employment to choice up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Bruce Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a true married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for cibai lower and middle-income families.