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 Feb 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating all but $7 jillion to tolerate San Francisco to go along providing free people bus topology and former transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it leave compensate an additional two eld of the gratis transit political platform. The programme is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation government agency through and through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and other engineering companies expression literary criticism terminated private buses they expend to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the donation shows Google is a unfeigned cooperator in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and middle-income families.