Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 1000000 to countenance San Francisco to cover providing justify bus topology and other exile services to low-income city kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and Cibai aforesaid it will screening an extra deuce age of the loose passage syllabus. The programme is presently funded by a regional fare agency done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies nerve criticism o'er buck private buses they consumption to nibble up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Downwind said the contribution shows Google is a truthful cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.