Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 1000000 to reserve San Francisco to stay on providing unfreeze bus topology and Mesum former transportation system services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it leave back an extra deuce age of the liberal transit program. The programme is currently funded by a regional transferral delegacy through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering science companies confront criticism all over secret buses they apply to option up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and Mesum gentrifying the city.

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