California Update: The World’s 4th-Largest Economy – And The Home of “Shaq State”?

Explores California’s global economic scale alongside policy-linked drivers of high living costs and inequality.

Podcast episodecaliforniacost of livingeconomic rankingshousing affordabilityinflation pressuresmiddle class squeeze

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• Hoover Institution · 2025-05-05

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