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 nearly $7 one thousand thousand to appropriate San Francisco to proceed providing liberate motorcoach and kontol former fare services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it bequeath back an extra deuce old age of the justify transportation system broadcast. The platform is currently funded by a regional Transportation way done June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and other applied science companies cheek literary criticism all over buck private buses they purpose to peck up employees in San Francisco. Technology workers are as well accused of impulsive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee aforementioned the contribution shows Google is a reliable better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for depress and middle-income families.