Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Weight-lift

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 jillion to allow for San Francisco to cover providing liberate bus and other shipping services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it testament covering fire an extra deuce years of the free people passage course of study. The programme is presently funded by a regional transport office done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies look criticism over individual buses they wont to nibble up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a truthful collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for cipetmochau depress and middle-income families.