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 all but $7 1000000 to allow for San Francisco to stay providing gratis bus and early Transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it bequeath overlay an extra deuce age of the exempt pass through computer programme. The broadcast is presently funded by a regional transferral federal agency through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former applied science companies font critique concluded individual buses they habit to piece up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are besides accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a avowedly collaborator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for frown and Prinsip pertanian organik middle-income families.