Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 million to allow for Porn San Francisco to stay on providing relinquish coach and former exile services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it will insure an extra deuce geezerhood of the costless transportation programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional transportation federal agency through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies font critique all over common soldier buses they practice to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee Yuen Kam aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a confessedly pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.