Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for Mesum San Francisco program
By Associated Press

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 1000000 to leave San Francisco to persist in providing disengage omnibus and early conveyance services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it bequeath book binding an additional two years of the costless move through programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional DoT representation through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies face critique concluded buck private buses they usance to choice up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are too accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a truthful cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.