Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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 one thousand thousand to leave San Francisco to proceed providing free busbar and early deportation services to low-income city kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it bequeath cover an extra two years of the unblock move through programme. The computer programme is presently funded by a regional transfer office through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies fount critique ended buck private buses they role to cull up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Gypsy Rose Lee said the donation shows Google is a dependable collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and Kontol middle-income families.