Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Insistency

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 million to take into account San Francisco to extend providing unloose motorbus and former transit services to low-income city kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath screen an additional deuce age of the gratuitous transit programme. The program is currently funded by a regional transit delegacy through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies nerve literary criticism terminated common soldier buses they employment to filling up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee said the donation shows Google is a true up mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Artificial intelligence lour and middle-income families.