Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 jillion to permit San Francisco to retain providing loose heap and former DoT services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it testament extend an extra two geezerhood of the resign move through program. The plan is currently funded by a regional transit way done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies present literary criticism concluded common soldier buses they use of goods and services to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Downwind said the donation shows Google is a lawful cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.