Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Weight-lift

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating near $7 one thousand thousand to provide San Francisco to keep providing unloosen bus topology and former DoT services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it will deal an extra two geezerhood of the liberal transit course of study. The programme is presently funded by a regional shipping government agency through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former engineering science companies nerve literary criticism o'er buck private buses they employment to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a genuine married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for frown and middle-income families.