Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Pressure
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 one thousand thousand sewa genset to allow San Francisco to stay providing loose motorcoach and other Department of Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it testament pass over an extra deuce years of the exempt pass over programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transit authority done June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering companies facial expression unfavorable judgment over individual buses they habit to foot up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee side aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.