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The Latest: California rejects affirmative action measure

by Janie Har
| November 4, 2020 10:27 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California voters have rejected an attempt to reinstate affirmative action programs in public hiring, contracting and college admissions, keeping a 1996 ban on the government granting preferential treatment based on race and gender.

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