ABC Los Angeles posts an Associated Press article which reveals that last year, for the first time ever, California lost population.
California's population fell by more than 182,000 people in 2020, marking the first year-over-year loss ever recorded for the nation's most populous state.
State officials announced Friday that California's population dipped 0.46% to just under 39.5 million people from January 2020 to January 2021.
State officials say California has seen more people leave than move in from other states for much of the last three decades. However, that had been offset by international immigration and births so that California continued to grow.
That changed in 2020. State officials say a declining birth rate, plus reductions in international immigration and an increase in deaths because of the coronavirus, led to the state's first ever year-over-year population loss.
Legal residents keep leaving and, under Trump, CA couldn’t backfill the vacancy with illegal aliens. Under Biden this inability will be ‘corrected.’
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Bruce, I mean “Caitlyn,” Jenner is absolutely correct about how far CA has fallen. It was very nearly a paradise when I was young, even when she arrived.
My parents and I would read about Easterners trying to save the money for their kids’ college fees and wonder why it was a problem, CA public universities were almost free to instate residents and the two-year community colleges were free.
My state university baccalaureate degree cost my parents maybe $6k, which would be roughly $50k in 2021 dollars. That would be a real bargain today. Inflation has been the rule in higher education, even when absent elsewhere in the economy.
