After losing population in recent years, California is starting to grow again. Is that a good thing?
After Jerry Brown became governor of California for the first time nearly a half-century ago, he declared that the state had entered “an era of limits.”
Citing “sluggish economic growth, increasing social instability, widespread unemployment and unprecedented environmental challenges,” Brown told state legislators in his 1976 state of the state speech, “In place of a manifest economic destiny, we face a sober reassessment of new economic realities, and we all have t