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Here’s Why California Is Losing Population for the First Time

OLD AND OVER THE HILL

Fewer people are arriving, the people who are there are having fewer kids, and more people are dying. Add it up, and it’s big trouble for the biggest state.

Published Dec. 31 2021 3:29AM EST

211230-leaving-california-hero_eo2y67 — Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

Wendell Cox

Wendell Cox

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