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The California Dream is Driving Small Business Away

December 17, 2025 2:30 pmDecember 17, 2025 2:31 pm

The California Legislature’s high tax, high cost of living, anti-business climate continues to drive businesses large and small and many of their employees out of the state. Shockingly, the Democrat-led supermajority of elected representatives double down on costly regulatory policies...

UPDATED: How to Kill a State in 5 Easy Steps – Gavin Newsom’s California

August 13, 2025 7:36 amAugust 13, 2025 7:38 am

California is one of only five states that haven’t recovered to pre-COVID job levels, and even our partial recovery is entirely dependent on government jobs. The California Center for Jobs & the Economy recently reported: “California’s job growth has been...

How to Kill a State in 5 Easy Steps: Gavin Newsom’s California

October 29, 2024 8:36 amNovember 1, 2024 5:45 am

As California’s job openings declined 30% this year, as unemployment spiked, Governor Gavin Newsom gave fast food workers a minimum wage increase to $20 per hour. As private sector businesses and residents have been fleeing California’s high taxes and high...

56% Of Californians Have Considered A Move Away From California According To A New Poll

October 18, 2024 12:49 pmOctober 20, 2024 7:44 pm

A new poll of California residents released this week found that 56% of Californians have considered moving away from the state, with the main reason being cost of living. California’s state population nearly reached 40 million in the 2010’s, but...

California Dreamin’ becomes California Leavin’

June 10, 2024 2:25 pmJune 10, 2024 3:41 pm

Californians are moving out. Still. “The top states Californians were leaving for – as we’ve become accustomed to, Florida and Texas, North and South Carolina and Tennessee,” the Globe reported in January. “U-Haul reports that Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Colorado and...

California Loses Population – Again

January 23, 2023 4:05 pmJanuary 26, 2023 6:54 am

California reigned for decades as the unmatched destination for people around the country. Now people can’t leave fast enough. Recently released numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that between July 2021 and July 2022, California lost roughly 343,000 residents...

California Lost Double The Number Of Companies In 2021 Than Previous Year New Report Finds

November 3, 2022 8:37 pmNovember 3, 2022 8:40 pm

According to a new Stanford University Hoover Institution report released on Thursday, the rate at which companies have been leaving California has risen dramatically since 2018, with the 153 company headquarters relocations in 2021, more than doubling the 75 that...