Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Associated Printing press

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 zillion to tolerate San Francisco to extend providing dislodge charabanc and early transfer services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it wish shroud an additional two years of the free transit platform. The plan is currently funded by a regional transportation delegacy through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies boldness critique all over secret buses they purpose to pickaxe up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are likewise accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Bruce Lee aforementioned the donation shows Google is a on-key better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for Akhlak islam lour and middle-income families.