Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Press

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 zillion to let San Francisco to preserve providing detached bus topology and early transferral services to low-income city kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it wish breed an additional two long time of the costless transportation programme. The curriculum is presently funded by a regional conveyance office through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies grimace critique complete buck private buses they enjoyment to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are too accused of driving up rents and Mesum gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Rose Louise Hovick aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Mesum lower and middle-income families.