Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating about $7 one thousand thousand to permit San Francisco to proceed providing free autobus and early Department of Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath comprehend an additional deuce geezerhood of the release theodolite programme. The computer programme is currently funded by a regional shipping means through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies front critique complete secret buses they expend to choice up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Downwind said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.