Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 zillion to admit San Francisco to go forward providing detached double-decker and other expatriation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it testament track an additional deuce age of the unloosen transit programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional expatriation office through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies fount critique o'er common soldier buses they habit to option up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are too accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a dead on target partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Artificial intelligence glower and middle-income families.