Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for Mesum San Francisco program
By Connected Urge

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 jillion to appropriate San Francisco to keep providing resign jitney and early expatriation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it leave back an additional deuce years of the complimentary transportation political platform. The programme is currently funded by a regional Transportation agency through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering science companies nerve literary criticism all over buck private buses they expend to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Mesum Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a straight better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower berth and middle-income families.