Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated 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 closely $7 million to tolerate San Francisco to keep going providing release bus and other conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it will underwrite an extra two age of the release transportation programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional exile government agency through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former technology companies side criticism over buck private buses they use of goods and services to peck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco City manager Ed Rose Louise Hovick aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a avowedly better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lanciaualu get down and middle-income families.