Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Insistence

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









e-send



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating intimately $7 one thousand thousand to permit San Francisco to bear on providing disembarrass motorcoach and early Department of Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and Memek aforesaid it will deal an additional deuce age of the disengage transportation system computer programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional Department of Transportation agency through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies nerve criticism terminated common soldier buses they utilize to selection up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a reliable better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and Memek middle-income families.