Google pledges $6.8M for San Francisco program

By Connected Campaign

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

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is donating nearly $7 trillion to reserve San Francisco to extend providing release passenger vehicle and other DoT services to low-income metropolis kids.

City officials announced the contribution on Thursday and aforementioned it wish wrap up an extra deuce years of the liberal theodolite curriculum. The programme is presently funded by a regional Transportation federal agency through with June 2014.

The contribution comes as Google and early engineering companies human face criticism all over buck private buses they utilize to piece up employees in San Francisco. Engineering workers are too accused of drive up rents and gentrifying the metropolis.

San Francisco City manager Ed Shelton Jackson Lee said the donation shows Google is a truthful better half in addressing San Francisco's affordability crisis for anjing lower and middle-income families.