The continuing reminder of the governor of Gavin New Zeroum is that the California economyLeadLikewise, being a A model for social justice Fake. Certainly, California has a gross domestic product, which is largely moved due to the high real estate prices and the value of stocks for a handful of technology companies, but it is not I saw on a large scale As a place for class mobility, he slowly waives its dominance, even in technology -related industries.
In contemporary California, home to Four of the seven most seven -value technology companies in the worldBruce technology and real estate speculators occupy what Lenin called the “Heights of Leaders”, while the reality on Earth is less etheric. The view is revealed from the place where most of the California residents reside in New study Under the auspices of the University of Chapman: “Is California losing Mujo?
Historically, the report notes that California outperformed the rest of the country in terms of the growth of its goods and services. However, the pace of GDP growth in the country has decreased significantly since 2022, as the measure is now declining compared to other countries. Distribution of jobs and wealth is more worrying.
California has been a particularly bad bet on blue -colored professions, such as manufacturing, and the traditional way to the ups of the oud of minorities and non -classic learners. Labor Statistics Office, analyzed by LightCastCalifornia shows failed places like Utah, Nevada, Texas and Arizona over a decade.
Chapman’s paper recognizes that the state has witnessed sufficient growth in jobs to maintain low unemployment levels, but with the details of the report, most of the new jobs in California are not concentrated in high -wage sectors. Over the past ten years, 62 % of the added jobs in California have been in low -fee industries, compared to 51.6 % for the nation as a whole. In the past three years, the situation has worsened, with 78.1 % of all the added functions in California of low -wage industries from the average, compared to 61 % for the nation as a whole.
In a country with high living costs, it seems likely to bear the scarcity of good wage jobs responsible for the external migration rate and its poverty rate, which the Statistics Office counts, in its most comprehensive appreciation, such as 15.4 %, one of the highest rates in the nation. California may be home to many billionaires, but it is also home Almost 30 % From the country without shelter.
Of course, not everyone suffered. In addition to technical billionaires, who works well in California? Older home owners, for one of them, the lower line that increased the values of the houses increased significantly. Government workers have also flourished.
The statistical office data, which was highlighted in the Chapmann report, shows that the growth of public sector jobs in California over the past decade has been growing in About the same pace As functions in general in California, but the average annual wage of these government jobs was almost twice the job of the private sector. In other words, the way to the middle class does not come from private work, but from the jobs that are funded by taxpayers.
In the past, the cities of California, including San Francisco, San Jose and San Diego, were all in the top ten among the centers for the “advanced industry” workers – where there is a significant investment in research and development and a high percentage of STEM roles. But since 2020, San Jose is still only in the best 25 metro areas to grow in such employment. Today, the emerging hotspots east of Sierra: Austin, Texas; Nashville Indianapolis Solt Lake City and Vinix.
Can California restore Mujo? After all, many state assets – research universities, leading technology companies and lifestyle have not disappeared.
First, newsoms and other government heads must stop using the size of the economy as a cover for real problems. Whatever the strengths of the state, as the Chapmann report puts, the low -wage functions that exceed the advanced industry are not sustainable.
The Biden administration confirmed the re -manufacturing to the United States, and President -elect Donald Trump promised the same thing, but California missed opportunities due to the costs related to its regulatory systems.
Consider the techniques that have been largely developed and adopted by California, such as EVS and the batteries it runs. Jobs in those manufacturing industries decrease by an overwhelming majority Red statesand To a large extent, a reflection of things such as the rules of allowing is easier and reduced the costs of energy and less -in -interfering labor regulations.
It is striking that newsom, who intends with Elon Musk and took over the role of the anti-Trump national jump, promised that if the following administration in Washington is canceled in the federal buyer of $ 700, California will skip the state’s statements of vehicles-with one exception, Teslas, which occurs to the dominant American brand and adults in California. The factory in Fremont is used for thousands of good manufacturing functions.
This is hardly the end of self -destruction.
One of the “advanced industry” where California, especially southern California, still is the leg, and the defense of that. The state remains Well in the introduction in terms of space -related employmentIt appears that innovative new companies, such as Anduril in Orange County, are preparing to take advantage of Trump’s focus on military spending. In his first term, he increased Defense budget for the historical top.
But is the democratic California leadership on board?
Once again, state relations with Musk, Trump “First Friends” and a prominent astronaut in the world, refer to the opposite. Musk, Disturbed by the California law This allows schools to keep parents in the dark when their children recognize that they are LGBTQ+, they decided to transfer the SPACEX headquarters from Hawthorne to Texas this year. Just weeks ago, the coastal California Committee denied a Spacex request to increase the firing of the missiles from the Vandenberg Air Force base; It is said after the commissioners discussed his political views Before they vote on this issue. She even intercepted newsom.
This is not the way to really build a comprehensive and healthy economy. Gavin Newsom can speak everything he wants about the California bonus, but the road to the state’s democrats has been a deep decline.
Joel Kotkin is an opinion -joint stock writer, presidential colleague at the Urban Future at the University of Chapman and an oldest research colleague at the Sevitas Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.