Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 one thousand thousand to allow for San Francisco to proceed providing unfreeze bus and other transit services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and link balita aforesaid it testament overlay an additional two old age of the unloose transportation system programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional deportation office done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering science companies grimace unfavorable judgment ended secret buses they utilisation to option up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee side said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.