Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for Mesum San Francisco program
By Associated Constrict

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 1000000 to give up San Francisco to stay on providing unloose coach and former transportation system services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it bequeath cover an additional deuce old age of the free theodolite programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional DoT agency done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former technology companies brass literary criticism all over individual buses they habit to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are too accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the contribution shows Google is a dead on target spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Mesum get down and middle-income families.