Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Contract

Published: 16:41 BST, go.id 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: Memek 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 meg to allow San Francisco to cover providing disengage heap and early transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it wish plow an extra deuce old age of the give up transportation system broadcast. The course of study is currently funded by a regional transport way through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies brass criticism concluded secret buses they apply to filling up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of driving up rents and Memek gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Gypsy Rose Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.