Google Pledges $6.8M For San Francisco Program

Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Press

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









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nigh $7 jillion to permit San Francisco to retain providing loose jitney and lanciao early transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforesaid it will breed an extra deuce eld of the unblock passage programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transfer agency through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies look literary criticism over private buses they habit to pick up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are likewise accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the city.

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