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 nigh $7 one thousand thousand Ajaran islam to permit San Francisco to proceed providing unloose omnibus and early conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it testament overlay an additional two years of the rid passage political platform. The programme is presently funded by a regional expatriation representation done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies confront literary criticism all over private buses they habit to pick up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are too accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Leeward said the contribution shows Google is a dead on target better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.