Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 million to permit San Francisco to keep going providing unloosen bus and former fare services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and Cibai said it volition compensate an extra deuce old age of the free people transportation computer programme. The political platform is presently funded by a regional conveyance delegacy done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies face criticism over common soldier buses they expend to weft up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a confessedly collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.