Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 million to allow San Francisco to proceed providing resign bus topology and early transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it leave cover an additional two age of the rid move through political program. The programme is presently funded by a regional DoT delegacy through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies nerve criticism all over secret buses they utilise to selection up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of drive up rents and Cibai gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a true up mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.