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 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 million to reserve San Francisco to go on providing costless autobus and early transfer services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it volition extend an extra two old age of the liberal passage course of study. The curriculum is currently funded by a regional Transportation agency through and through June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and other applied science companies face critique all over individual buses they wont to break up up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor memek Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a reliable better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.