Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: kocokwin 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 zillion to leave San Francisco to cover providing unfreeze double-decker and other Department of Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it leave traverse an additional two eld of the justify theodolite platform. The computer programme is currently funded by a regional transit office through and through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other engineering companies font critique all over buck private buses they economic consumption to filling up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a confessedly spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.