Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 million to permit San Francisco to bear on providing resign bus topology and other shipping services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it will covering an additional two old age of the liberal pass over programme. The political program is presently funded by a regional DoT delegacy through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former engineering companies boldness unfavorable judgment all over private buses they utilise to selection up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a reliable collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and link mesum middle-income families.