California’s leaders refuse to recognize that their own policies are causing the continued exodus of poor and rich alike.
California lost 500,000 people between 2020 and 2022, which is nearly the equivalent of the entire population of Sacramento, the state’s sixth-largest city. Actually, California didn’t lose these people. We know where they went. People die and give birth, and immigrants still move here, although in fewer numbers than in the past. Beyond that, hundreds of thousands of Californians have picked up stakes and moved to other states.
