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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 million to appropriate San Francisco to persist in providing resign bus and former conveyance services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it testament get across an extra two old age of the complimentary pass across curriculum. The program is currently funded by a regional transfer means through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies confront criticism o'er secret buses they consumption to blame up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are as well accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a straight spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Kontol depress and middle-income families.