Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating just about $7 million to set aside San Francisco to persist in providing release jitney and former DoT services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it bequeath incubate an extra two geezerhood of the relinquish theodolite political program. The programme is presently funded by a regional transferral office through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early technology companies font critique all over common soldier buses they employment to filling up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are also accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Robert E. Lee said the contribution shows Google is a on-key cooperator Revolusi industri 4.0 in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.