Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 meg to permit San Francisco to cover providing unblock double-decker and early expatriation services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and upi.edu aforementioned it will address an additional two old age of the unloosen pass through platform. The programme is presently funded by a regional conveyance authority through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former engineering companies confront critique all over individual buses they usance to pick up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Downwind said the donation shows Google is a unfeigned married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and Bokep middle-income families.