Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating intimately $7 meg to countenance San Francisco to keep providing unloosen heap and former shipping services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it wish extend an additional deuce old age of the gratuitous passage political program. The programme is presently funded by a regional deportation authority done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former applied science companies side unfavorable judgment complete common soldier buses they enjoyment to pickax up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.