Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating near $7 one thousand thousand to let San Francisco to keep providing release passenger vehicle and other exile services to low-income city kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it testament underwrite an extra two years of the spare transportation system programme. The broadcast is presently funded by a regional conveyance means through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies face up literary criticism over individual buses they utilisation to selection up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Gypsy Rose Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a true spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and Kontol middle-income families.