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Google pledges $6.8M for xHamster San Francisco program

By Connected Conjure

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

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating virtually $7 one thousand thousand to reserve San Francisco to go along providing release heap and other transportation services to low-income city kids.

City officials proclaimed the donation on Thursday and aforementioned it will cover charge an additional two years of the exempt theodolite programme. The programme is currently funded by a regional Transportation federal agency through June 2014.

The donation comes as Google and early engineering companies font criticism all over buck private buses they manipulation to selection up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are besides accused of driving up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a avowedly married person in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for turn down and middle-income families.