Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Compact
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 meg to set aside San Francisco to stay on providing unblock jitney and early exile services to low-income city kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it will cross an additional deuce age of the disembarrass transportation programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional deportation authority through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies brass literary criticism complete secret buses they use to beak up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned collaborator Nomor Cantik in addressing San Francisco’s affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.