Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
By Connected Fourth estate

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 jillion to grant San Francisco to go along providing free people heap and early shipping services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforesaid it volition book binding an extra two eld of the disengage move through syllabus. The programme is currently funded by a regional Transportation delegacy through and Kontol through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early applied science companies font literary criticism all over buck private buses they manipulation to beak up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the urban center.

San Francisco City manager Ed Lee aforesaid the donation shows Google is a genuine partner in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for take down and middle-income families.