Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 1000000 to let San Francisco to keep going providing free jalopy and other conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and said it will extend an extra two geezerhood of the unloose transportation system computer programme. The course of study is presently funded by a regional conveyance government agency through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies confront criticism ended private buses they employ to filling up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Leeward aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a dependable pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for turn down and Mesum middle-income families.