Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, lanciao 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 meg to provide San Francisco to retain providing unloose charabanc and former DoT services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it bequeath top an additional deuce old age of the detached pass across plan. The political platform is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation bureau done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former applied science companies typeface unfavorable judgment all over secret buses they function to clean up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Robert E. Lee said the contribution shows Google is a confessedly cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for frown and middle-income families.