California is losing more residents than any state except for two.
In 2015, California had a population of 38.8 million. By 2016 (the latest year available), it shrank to about 38.6 million, resulting in a net drop of 136,000 people.
This trend has been the case for awhile, as lower and middle-income Californians have been moving out of the state for years. This exodus from California is due to many factors, the top ones cited by experts being the high taxes paired with a high cost of living,…
