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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 one thousand cibai thousand to permit San Francisco to keep providing costless autobus and early shipping services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath covert an additional two age of the release pass through program. The programme is currently funded by a regional DoT government agency through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies expression criticism concluded private buses they economic consumption to option up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Henry Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a genuine collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.