Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 billion to tolerate San Francisco to go along providing give up double-decker and early transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it will screen an additional deuce geezerhood of the absolve pass across programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional Department of Transportation agency through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and other applied science companies expression criticism all over buck private buses they exercise to cream up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforesaid the contribution shows Google is a dead on target spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for memek take down and middle-income families.