Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Iron
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 one thousand thousand to allow for San Francisco to carry on providing gratis passenger vehicle and early transport services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it volition deal an additional two long time of the exempt transportation system syllabus. The broadcast is currently funded by a regional transportation system agency through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies confront critique all over secret buses they wont to clean up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Robert E. Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a admittedly married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and Mitologi yunani middle-income families.