Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 one thousand thousand to let San Francisco to remain providing unloose double-decker and other transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it will shroud an extra deuce age of the release pass across programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional transit means through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early technology companies cheek literary criticism all over individual buses they economic consumption to pick up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee side said the contribution shows Google is a confessedly pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.