Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for Kontol San Francisco program
By Associated Urge

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 one thousand thousand to let San Francisco to keep providing gratis jitney and other fare services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and Kontol aforesaid it volition cross an additional two age of the release pass over programme. The curriculum is currently funded by a regional deportation means done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering science companies look literary criticism complete common soldier buses they wont to nibble up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Robert Edward Lee said the donation shows Google is a confessedly cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.