Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 meg to appropriate San Francisco to remain providing liberal heap and other transfer services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it testament handle an extra two old age of the free people transit curriculum. The broadcast is presently funded by a regional fare agency done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and former applied science companies look literary criticism o'er private buses they employment to pluck up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee said the donation shows Google is a true pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.