Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating most $7 meg to earmark San Francisco to keep on providing costless jitney and early transportation services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and said it bequeath track an extra deuce days of the free transportation programme. The computer program is currently funded by a regional DoT way done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies human face unfavorable judgment over buck private buses they utilization to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Robert Edward Lee said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and Akhlak islam middle-income families.