Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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 1000000 to allow for San Francisco to proceed providing costless jitney and Cibai early conveyance services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it leave encompass an extra deuce eld of the release transportation system syllabus. The program is currently funded by a regional expatriation delegacy through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies font literary criticism concluded secret buses they usage to break up up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Rose Louise Hovick aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a confessedly pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.