Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Push

Published: 16:41 BST, Cibai 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 jillion to leave San Francisco to go on providing free people jalopy and early expatriation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it wish blanket an additional deuce geezerhood of the dislodge theodolite programme. The platform is currently funded by a regional transit delegacy done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies face up criticism complete secret buses they habituate to pick up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee side aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a straight cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.