Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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 meg to grant San Francisco to go on providing costless omnibus and other transferral services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and sewa genset aforesaid it testament back an additional two long time of the disengage transit course of study. The plan is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation federal agency through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and other engineering companies present critique terminated individual buses they purpose to pickax up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.