Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program
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Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Conjure
Published: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating well-nigh $7 zillion to permit San Francisco to proceed providing gratis motorcoach and early expatriation services to low-income urban center kids.
City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and kontol aforesaid it will embrace an additional two years of the absolve transportation computer program. The programme is presently funded by a regional Department of Transportation bureau through with June 2014.
The donation comes as Google and early technology companies present unfavorable judgment all over secret buses they apply to nibble up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.
San Francisco City manager Ed Lighthorse Harry Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a dead on target pardner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.