Google Pledges 6.8M For San Francisco Program

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 well-nigh $7 one thousand thousand to admit San Francisco to proceed providing gratis jitney and former conveyance services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it will overcompensate an additional two days of the costless pass through programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional transportation system office through and through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other technology companies confront literary criticism all over individual buses they expend to choice up employees in San Francisco. Engineering science workers are also accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Richard Henry Lee said the contribution shows Google is a straight partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for let down and cibai middle-income families.