Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 million to provide San Francisco to keep going providing release motorbus and early transport services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it testament underwrite an extra deuce years of the disengage transportation programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transit office through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies font unfavorable judgment terminated private buses they utilisation to pluck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a genuine better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.