Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated 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 intimately $7 jillion to earmark San Francisco to keep providing unblock coach and former transportation services to low-income city kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it volition screening an extra two old age of the unloose move through program. The programme is currently funded by a regional DoT way through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies face critique o'er buck private buses they practice to option up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco Mayor kontol Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a avowedly cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.