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California’s population fell during the early pandemic years, then returned to modest growth by mid-2024: , followed by , driven by increased international migration and a reduction in domestic out-mi...
California’s estimated population as of January 1, 2025 is , based on provisional state reporting that counts an increase of . This figure comes from the California Department of Finance and was reite...
California remains a global economic heavyweight — its 2023 GDP was about $3.9 trillion and the state accounts for roughly 14% of U.S. GDP, and California has been described as rivaling or exceeding l...
California’s recent expansions of Medi‑Cal to cover undocumented immigrants have resulted in in March 2025 reporting, with officials and analysts citing a mix of higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, and...
California’s population trajectory between the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) and calendar year 2023 is contested because different official estimates and media accounts highlight opposite short-term mov...
California’s population increased between the 2020 decennial census and 2023, with state estimates showing a net gain of about and a 2023 year-end population around ; this marked the first annual incr...
California experienced substantial net domestic outmigration during the 2020–2024 period, with multiple official and journalistic sources estimating aggregate losses on the order of hundreds of thousa...
The U.S. Census Bureau’s publicly referenced releases in the supplied materials do not include an explicit statewide population estimate for California for ; the Bureau’s most recent completed vintage...
The most reliable contemporaneous estimate for the is roughly , a figure the California Department of Finance provided and that multiple news outlets report as the state’s expected outlay for the Prop...
moved beyond federally funded eligibility rules and either extended Medicaid‑like coverage to undocumented residents or created state‑funded marketplace subsidies for them; the most prominent expansio...
Cost estimates for ’s Proposition 50 vary wildly depending on what is being counted: and some news outlets pegged the special‑election tab at roughly $282–283 million, county‑level administration cost...
is losing roughly between 590 and 660 residents a day to other U.S. states based on the most recent annual domestic-migration estimates; the exact daily rate depends on which official series and year ...
California’s 2020 decennial count recorded 39,538,223 residents, a 6.1% increase since 2010 — substantially slower than the prior decade — and the state’s racial and ethnic mix shifted markedly with r...
Claims that "states paid $8.88 billion on average to support illegal aliens" do not appear verbatim in the available reporting; CBO estimated more than $16.2 billion in Medicaid emergency spending for...
California’s ports are presented in recent reporting and industry studies as a major fiscal engine—one estimate puts waterborne trade through California ports at $416 billion in 2020 and attributes ro...
California shifted from population loss to modest growth between 2020 and 2024, driven primarily by , even as domestic out-migration remained large. Concurrently the state experienced , with older coh...
California’s available documents in this packet do not provide usable estimates of ; none of the supplied analyses directly evaluate AB 495’s fiscal impacts. The materials instead discuss other bills ...