Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 million to countenance San Francisco to stay providing disengage jitney and early transfer services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it leave get over an extra deuce old age of the unloose pass through broadcast. The programme is presently funded by a regional transferral delegacy through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering science companies grimace criticism terminated common soldier buses they exercise to find fault up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

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