That’s what the LA Times says, and I fear they are right.
Consider, California’s poverty rate of 18.2% is second only to the District of Columbia.
California also has the nation’s greatest income inequality.
California has the highest gasoline prices and highest electricity prices in the country.
Everyone who wants to grow a business is fleeing California.
And their dishwashers don’t work.
Marvelous.
Tidewater News and Opinion Forum 
“Everyone who wants to grow a business is fleeing California.
Capitalism at work? It’s not called the Left Coast for nothing. I’ve always thought of it as a mad (political) scientist’s laboratory….
Call a place paradise and …..
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Poverty rates by state from 2019 census bureau reports:
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2019-poverty-rate.html
CA had 11.8%, below the national rate of 12.3% in 2019. Deep South, on the other hand had 19% among MS, LA, etc.
That being said, those were pre-COVID rates. And COVID has hit CA very hard.
Where did you get your statistics?
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article234920662.html
The difference, I think, is that the Bee article uses the supplemental poverty rate, which is adjusted for local cost of living.
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That article refers to the 2018 poverty rates.
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note the edit Supplemental Poverty rate adjusted for cost of living.
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Rand Paul Warns One-Third of Republicans Will Leave Party if GOP Senators Back Impeachment
Uh, and the downside is… what?
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Snoopy dance worthy.
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