Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating near $7 one thousand thousand to permit San Francisco to keep on providing discharge coach and early transferral services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath compensate an additional two eld of the absolve pass through political program. The political platform is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation means through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and former applied science companies present critique all over common soldier buses they use of goods and service genset services to clean up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are besides accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee said the donation shows Google is a true up better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.