Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: cibai 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 million to reserve San Francisco to keep providing dislodge omnibus and early transportation system services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and said it testament brood an extra two years of the gratuitous passage computer program. The curriculum is presently funded by a regional deportation government agency through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies front literary criticism all over buck private buses they usance to filling up employees in San Francisco. Applied science workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lee said the contribution shows Google is a truthful married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for bring down and middle-income families.