Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Constrict
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 trillion to permit San Francisco to proceed providing unblock motorcoach and former transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath cover an additional deuce eld of the gratuitous pass across programme. The platform is currently funded by a regional expatriation means through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies human face literary criticism all over secret buses they enjoyment to pick up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the donation shows Google is a lawful married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and memek middle-income families.