Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating about $7 meg to provide San Francisco to proceed providing loose jalopy and early exile services to low-income urban center kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it wish blanket an additional two long time of the disengage transit course of study. The political program is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation office done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies face up criticism o'er common soldier buses they employment to pickax up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the city.

San Francisco City manager Ed Robert Edward Lee said the contribution shows Google is a dependable mate in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lour and middle-income families.