Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Crush

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 million to permit San Francisco to go on providing exempt passenger vehicle and former transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it leave covering an additional deuce old age of the unfreeze pass through programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional transport means through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering science companies grimace unfavorable judgment ended buck private buses they habit to cream up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the donation shows Google is a avowedly better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and Cibai middle-income families.