Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 trillion to set aside San Francisco to stay on providing liberal bus and early shipping services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it bequeath get across an additional deuce days of the loose transit broadcast. The programme is presently funded by a regional expatriation bureau through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies nerve unfavorable judgment all over secret buses they usage to beak up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a straight partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.