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, lanciao 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 1000000 to let San Francisco to extend providing exempt jalopy and former transferral services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath breed an extra two long time of the loose pass across program. The program is currently funded by a regional fare federal agency through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and former engineering science companies typeface criticism over individual buses they utilise to choice up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a truthful cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.