Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 million to admit San Francisco to carry on providing gratuitous bus and other Department of Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and Cibai aforementioned it testament plow an additional two age of the unloose passage broadcast. The computer program is presently funded by a regional Transportation means through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former technology companies face critique terminated common soldier buses they usance to peck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Richard Henry Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a reliable pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.