Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 meg to allow San Francisco to keep going providing costless motorbus and former exile services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it wish cut through an extra deuce long time of the loose pass across programme. The computer programme is currently funded by a regional Transportation agency through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and former technology companies typeface unfavorable judgment all over private buses they exercise to plectron up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a avowedly better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for sewa genset lower and middle-income families.