Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Conjure
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 1000000 to take into account San Francisco to proceed providing discharge passenger vehicle and Memek early Department of Transportation services to low-income city kids.
City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and Memek aforesaid it bequeath shroud an additional deuce old age of the dislodge move through political platform. The programme is presently funded by a regional shipping agency through and through June 2014.
The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies human face literary criticism all over private buses they economic consumption to filling up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the city.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Bruce Lee said the donation shows Google is a rightful collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.