{"id":16526,"date":"2014-05-25T01:51:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T08:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16526"},"modified":"2014-05-25T01:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T08:51:13","slug":"why-is-california-still-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/why-is-california-still-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is California Still Growing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/whytree.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is a Calaveras Big Trees State Park &#8220;Big Tree&#8221; base<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s population increased in 2013\u00a0by 356,000 residents. Meanwhile, a\u00a0Sacramento Bee story stated that California cities once led the nation in urban population growth, but sharp declines in migration and birthrates have slowed the state&#8217;s human expansion \u2013 for better or worse \u2013 rapid growth has shifted to other states.<\/p>\n<p>A Forbes headline said: &#8220;California Ranks Last With CEOs, Toyota Goes, Now Worst In Taxes&#8221;. The article cited an\u00a0April 2014 report: &#8220;Small Business Tax Index 2014:\u00a0Best to Worst State Tax Systems for\u00a0Entrepreneurship and Small Business,&#8221; in which California came in dead last (#50) as the worst state in the U.S. for businesses. Sure, companies and people are leaving, but California continues to grow, nevertheless. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/population-growth.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is a Calaveras Big Trees State Park &#8220;Big Tree&#8221; base California&#8217;s population increased in 2013\u00a0by 356,000 residents. Meanwhile, a\u00a0Sacramento Bee story stated that California cities once led the nation in urban population growth, but sharp declines in migration and birthrates have slowed the state&#8217;s human expansion \u2013 for better or worse \u2013 rapid growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}