"I think the California Dream is changing," said Lauren Hepler, economy reporter at Cal Matters. "The idea of driving out to L.A. and making a go of it on a waiter's salary maybe is not as realistic as it once was."
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Michael Storper, distinguished professor of Regional and International Development at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, believes there's more to the California Dream than simply population growth.
"When people say things like 'The dream is over' because we are not growing as fast as Arizona or Texas, that's comparing apples to oranges," said Storper. "That's because they entered the growth game later than we did. You can't have super high levels of population growth forever."
We take a closer look at the "state of the state" and examine the data behind the numbers. Why has our population growth slowed? Where are people going?
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