Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Press out
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 million to allow San Francisco to carry on providing relinquish jalopy and former deportation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it volition binding an extra deuce age of the unloose transportation system curriculum. The syllabus is presently funded by a regional Transportation delegacy through with June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies face critique complete individual buses they wont to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a honest cooperator cibai in addressing San Francisco’s affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.