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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 meg to allow San Francisco to cover providing resign autobus and early transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it volition overlay an extra two days of the complimentary transit programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional conveyance government agency through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former technology companies grimace critique ended private buses they exercise to selection up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor cibai Ed Gypsy Rose Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a lawful better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for turn down and middle-income families.