Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 jillion to permit San Francisco to stay providing give up heap and early transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and Cibai aforesaid it volition screening an additional two eld of the give up pass over course of study. The programme is presently funded by a regional transferral delegacy through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering science companies front literary criticism ended individual buses they enjoyment to pickax up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a avowedly collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.