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María Elena Durazo, a Democratic senator from Los Angeles, is renewing the fight for equitable paid family leave, hoping to make it a realistic option for more low-income Californians. After Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill last fall that would have increased wage replacement pay for the lowest...

Too often in the United States, the government allegedly “of, by, and for the people” seems to ignore certain communities. That the political “inside game” called redistricting is too little understood, voting advocates say, is a big part of the problem. Advocates, elected officials, and lawyers are grappling with...