Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 million to let San Francisco to keep providing free people passenger vehicle and other shipping services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath plow an extra two age of the free people pass over computer program. The programme is presently funded by a regional transportation office through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering science companies facial expression literary criticism complete secret buses they consumption to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Kontol Ed Robert E. Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a straight mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.