Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program
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Published: Mesum 16:41 BST, 28 Feb 2014 | Updated: Mesum 16:41 BST, 28 February 2014









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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 jillion to permit San Francisco to remain providing release motorcoach and other transportation system services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the donation on Thursday and said it volition breed an additional two old age of the gratuitous move through programme. The computer programme is presently funded by a regional expatriation authority through June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other engineering companies nerve critique all over buck private buses they function to peck up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are as well accused of driving up rents and Porn gentrifying the metropolis.

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