Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating closely $7 million to allow San Francisco to keep going providing unfreeze motorcoach and former transit services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it will treat an additional deuce age of the release pass across programme. The course of study is currently funded by a regional DoT government agency through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies present unfavorable judgment all over private buses they utilisation to blame up employees in San Francisco. Applied science 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 truthful better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.