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UC Berkeley Study: Sacramento’s Regulations Create America’s Highest Poverty Rate, Triggering California Exodus

April 2, 2026 3:32 pmApril 2, 2026 3:37 pm

A new report from the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley has exposed the harsh reality of life under one-party Democratic rule: California now suffers the highest cost-of-living-adjusted poverty rate in the entire United States, a crisis manufactured by Sacramento’s...

New Study Finds That ‘Calexit’ Out Of State Migration Continued During Pandemic

March 5, 2021 2:14 amMarch 5, 2021 5:38 pm

A new study by the California Policy Lab (CPL) found that, between March 2020 and December 2020, most Californian counties lost more residents than gained, confirming that “Calexit” continued even during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CPL, while large counties...

California’s Unemployment Averages 27 percent of All U.S. Claims

September 22, 2020 8:07 amSeptember 22, 2020 3:08 pm

Since Gov. Gavin Newsom shutdown California businesses in mid-March, Californians have filed 8.6 million total new claims for unemployment. In the age group of working Californians, ages 18-65, this is a rate of 39% of unemployed, higher than at the...

EDD Halting Unemployment Claimants For Two Weeks, Will Overhaul Entire System

September 21, 2020 2:55 pm

Over the weekend, Governor Newsom’s Employment Development Department (EDD) Strike Team issued a new report and announced that the EDD will be taking a two week break to overhaul and update the current system, while also halting all new claims...