California may be a great state in many ways, but it also is clearly breaking bad. Since 2000, 2.6 million net domestic migrants, a population larger than the cities of San Francisco, San Diego, and Anaheim combined, have moved from California to other parts of the United States.
California has lost more people in each of the last two decades than any state except New York-and they're not just those struggling to compete in the high-tech "New economy." During the 2010s, the state's growth in college-educated residents 25 and over did not keep up with the national rate of increase, putting California a mere 34th on this measure, behind such key competitors as Florida and Texas.
In 2015, over 50 percent of all jobs in California could be classified as middle-skill, but only 39 percent of the state's workers were trained at that level.
A study from the Public Policy Institute of California says the state will need approximately 1.1 million more college graduates by 2030 and projects that the demand for graduates by then will exceed the supply by 5.4 percent.
The pandemic-driven shift to online and dispersed work has further eroded the once-unchallenged attractiveness of California cities for tech and other skilled workers.
As the state's media and academic apologists point out, California has bounced back before.
California has the fifth-highest Gini Inequality index in the nation in 2019, according to American Community Survey data-not to mention the highest rates of cost-of-living-adjusted poverty, the worst housing affordability in the continental U.S., and a devastating shortage of mid-skilled workers.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-demographic-decline?wallit_nosession=1
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