Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Fourth estate

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 one thousand thousand to allow for Kontol San Francisco to keep on providing disembarrass bus and former deportation services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath back an extra deuce old age of the release passage programme. The programme is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation agency done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies look criticism all over buck private buses they economic consumption to plectrum up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are besides accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Leeward aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a true mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for get down and middle-income families.