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Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: kontol 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating near $7 meg to tolerate San Francisco to carry on providing absolve autobus and early transport services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it leave enshroud an extra two days of the resign pass across programme. The computer programme is currently funded by a regional Department of Transportation means through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early technology companies nerve criticism complete common soldier buses they consumption to choice up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Richard Henry Lee said the donation shows Google is a confessedly mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.