The economy of CA is limited. Why boast Newsom?

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Gavin Newsom loves to boast the country it governs, claiming that California is # 1 in a category or that the state is leading in some economic or cultural activity.

Sometimes his praise breaks up to reality, such as his statement for 2022 that the state budget had an excess of $ 97.5 billion and “no other country in American history has ever experienced an excess as big as this.”

It was later revealed that the claim for surplus was based on Revenue estimates that are wrong with $ 165 billion Over four years, leading to a multi -million -dollar budget deficit.

Unalhened, Newsom continued to boast on its paths. A few weeks ago he boasted that California was a nation, now has the fourth largest economy in the world With $ 4.1 trillion, throwing Japan.

“California is not just up to date with the world – we set the pace,” Newsom cheered. “Our economy is thriving because we invest in people, prioritize resilience and believe in the power of innovation.”

In fact, the edge of California over Japan is more the result of calculations of currency exchange rather than productivity, but $ 4.1 trillion is still a large number. Unfortunately, its size masks the darker reality, which, according to many measures, does not do better than water steps.

As the budget analyzer of the legislature stated, Gabe Petel in a California Budget Situation Report At the end of last year, “California’s economy was in prolonged delay over the bigger part of two years, characterized by a soft labor market and weak consumer expenses.

“While this delay is gradually the weight softer than the recession, the look at the latest economic data draws a picture of a slow economy. Outside the government and healthcare, the state does not add work for a year and a half.”

What Petek described six months ago is still true, as the latest employment data shows. In April, state state unemployment rate is 5.3% higher than all other than two other countriesMichigan and Nevada, and he has stuck to this elevated relative position for several years.

“Since February 2020, the state’s workforce has grown by only 126,100 workers, an increase of 0.6%”, “” Beacon Economics is said in analysis From the April data, adding: “This more slow growth is largely guided by the chronic shortage of state housing and retirement of aging workers.”

Justin Niakamal, a Beacon research manager, says it is difficult to see how California will be able to get out of its cycle with slow growth when there is virtually no increase in housing production. This is an elemental problem that affects the state’s ability to increase its population, industry. “

The main indication of the comparatively California economy of California is what is happening in the technology industry of the San Francisco Bay region, a sector that was essentially Prompting the whole country in recent yearsS

After expanding during the Covid-19 pandemic to serve those limited to their homes and work remotely, the industry has been Workpieces month by month.

While Newsom quotes the number from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that California now has the fourth largest economy on the globe, it does not tremble A recent desk survey This emphasizes the bad picture of the employment of the state. California has more than a million unemployed workers. The report of the new bureau reveals that the ratio of workers unemployed to the job openings is the highest of any country, 1.6 job seekers for each open job.

In order to put this point of data otherwise, if each opening work in California was filled, we would still have hundreds of thousands of Californians on the role of unemployment.

This has nothing to boast about.

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