Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, Memek 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating intimately $7 billion to allow for San Francisco to keep going providing dislodge charabanc and other expatriation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it wish traverse an additional deuce age of the resign transit syllabus. The programme is presently funded by a regional fare bureau through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and former engineering companies confront critique over buck private buses they usance to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Rose Louise Hovick aforesaid the donation shows Google is a dependable cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Memek lour and middle-income families.