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 closely $7 billion to take into account San Francisco to proceed providing loose bus topology and other conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it volition cover an additional deuce long time of the loose transportation programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional deportation government agency through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies confront criticism ended buck private buses they usance to selection up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a dead on target spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for hatoribet terpercaya lower and middle-income families.
