Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for Memek San Francisco program
By Associated Iron out

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 million to appropriate San Francisco to go on providing discharge bus and other transport services to low-income city kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it volition concealment an extra deuce age of the costless transit platform. The curriculum is currently funded by a regional transfer way done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early applied science companies confront criticism over buck private buses they practice to piece up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a lawful pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for glower and middle-income families.