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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 one thousand thousand to earmark San Francisco to carry on providing loose autobus and other transportation services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it testament track an extra deuce long time of the spare passage programme. The curriculum is currently funded by a regional transit means through with June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former technology companies present critique complete individual buses they purpose to piece up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Robert E. Lee said the contribution shows Google is a unfeigned spouse in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.