Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: cibai 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 million to tolerate San Francisco to persist in providing unloose motorbus and early transportation system services to low-income city kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it wish shroud an additional deuce age of the release pass over plan. The program is presently funded by a regional transport way through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early technology companies aspect unfavorable judgment complete secret buses they employment to pick up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Bruce Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a unfeigned better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.