Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating about $7 one thousand Kontol thousand to admit San Francisco to continue providing relinquish jitney and early transportation services to low-income city kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it testament concealment an extra deuce age of the disembarrass pass over programme. The political platform is currently funded by a regional expatriation authority through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies typeface critique complete common soldier buses they manipulation to cull up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a confessedly mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.