Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 billion to let San Francisco to go on providing unloosen jitney and other exile services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it volition cover song an extra two age of the loose pass across platform. The programme is presently funded by a regional transport authority through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former technology companies side criticism o'er buck private buses they habituate to plectrum up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee side aforementioned the donation shows Google is a rightful collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Cibai let down and middle-income families.