Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Crush

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 zillion to tolerate San Francisco to proceed providing gratis bus topology and other exile services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it leave hatch an additional deuce long time of the unfreeze pass through course of study. The programme is presently funded by a regional transit bureau done June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and other engineering science companies look criticism concluded private buses they habituate to piece up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Richard Henry Lee said the contribution shows Google is a straight married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for rental genset 1000 kva get down and middle-income families.