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, memek 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 million to grant San Francisco to keep providing liberate passenger vehicle and former exile services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it volition masking an additional two years of the detached pass over plan. The political program is currently funded by a regional exile federal agency done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early technology companies confront literary criticism over private buses they utilisation to plunk up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are too accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.