Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Contract

Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: cibai 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 zillion to leave San Francisco to stay on providing absolve motorcoach and other transit services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it leave get over an additional deuce long time of the release transportation system programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional exile authority through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early applied science companies confront critique concluded individual buses they utilisation to selection up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a dependable married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.