Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Push
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: Nomor Cantik 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 zillion to tolerate San Francisco to proceed providing gratis coach and former transfer services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it wish cross an extra two long time of the unloose transportation system platform. The plan is currently funded by a regional transferral delegacy through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies face criticism over individual buses they economic consumption to choice up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee Yuen Kam aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned better half in addressing San Francisco’s affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.