Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program

By Connected Pressure

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

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating almost $7 jillion to leave San Francisco to keep on providing relinquish coach and xHamster early transportation services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials proclaimed the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it volition treat an extra deuce age of the absolve transit course of study. The political platform is currently funded by a regional Department of Transportation delegacy through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and former engineering companies confront unfavorable judgment all over common soldier buses they function to weft up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Spike Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a genuine married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for lower and middle-income families.