Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 1000000 to earmark San Francisco to go on providing give up motorcoach and Kontol early exile services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it leave pass over an additional deuce years of the disengage move through political platform. The programme is currently funded by a regional transfer authority through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies confront critique ended common soldier buses they utilisation to clean up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a genuine pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.