https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/07/124862-california-decline-population-likely-peaked-three-years-ago 

California’s population has shrunk due to factors such as housing and work. Homes have become extremely expensive as well as the working conditions. Many people are expected to work from home, which can be very expensive. Many people in California are leaving because of this huge concern about the increase in prices of homes as well as goods. This isn’t California’s first year that the population continues to shrink but the third year. 

The article states that there was an estimation as to when the state would reach a population of 50 million. However, these estimations have been wrong as there has been a constant decrease in the population in California. There are other estimations that the effect of a population shrink in Los Angeles. This estimation says that the population in Los Angeles is expected to shrink by 1.7 million people from 2022 to 2060. Migration is also a crucial component of California’s population change, and there is an expected return of about 50,000 people throughout the next couple of years. I wonder if the estimation about the population in Los Angeles will become true because 1.7 million people in Los Angeles is a lot of people who would be leaving.

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-exodus-population-drops-again-political-muscle-at-risk-2023-12 

California’s population has dropped for the third year in a row. This significant drop has the state raising concerns about the effects of an exodus of residence from California. In a span of a year around 40,000 people left the state of California. In 2021 California recorded its first ever yearly population loss, but as the years went on the state lost more than half of million people in their population. California has faced major losses over the last three years. 

According to the article, California has forced its residents out of the state. This is because the cost-of-living has taken us to its residence with emphasis in Los Angeles and San Francisco where there have been higher housing costs. These housing costs have a median of $573,000. This cost has put a strain on working in middle-class families. It is also said that many residents have left the state during the pandemic because of remote working. It also says that all of the population drop has decreased and the trend is persisting. I wonder if California’s lawmakers will create a law that will allow there to be a small decrease and how much the homes cost.

https://www.foxla.com/news/california-population-change-2023 

California is one of the states in America with the most decline in population growth. California has been experiencing a lot of people since 2020. The Reason behind this is because of high taxes, high rent and traffic. A survey by the census shows that a lot of people are unsatisfied with California which is why over 100,000 people have left the state in the course of one year. California has had to deal with many people leaving since the pandemic.

According to the article, the census described that a lot of people are leaving for other states that are close by such as Oregon, Washington and Texas. Many people have been unsatisfied with what has been going on over the past three years. There has been a high rise of rent and food. Many people believe that there are better places to go to to live outside of California. I wonder if California will see these reasons, and want to change the laws that they have implemented about rent, as well as the prices of food. I also wonder if immigration plays a big role in how many people are coming into California. 

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/19/californias-population-shrunk-in-2023-for-the-third-straight-year-but-exodus-slowed/ 

In California for a third consecutive year, the Golden State population continues to shrink. California’s population has dropped another fifth of a percent since 2023. Last year about 75,000 residents left the state in 2023. California has had the fourth largest population since July 1, 2022 of all of the states in America. Wow, California’s population is slowing down and decreasing. It remains among a few states losing residence like New York, Louisiana, Hawaii, West Virginia, and Oregon in Pennsylvania.

The article states that the decline of the population of California has turned political. Many Republicans argue that California’s high tax rates, cost-of-living crime, and heavy regulations are actually the causes of the population shrinkage. There is a decline in deaths due to Covid in comparison to years before there’s also a return to “normal patterns of foreign legal migration”. According to the California Department of finance, the Golden State decline in population should level off, and the stage should begin to grow again in the next few years. Within a year to 18 months we should anticipate the return of a stable population growth, but it will be a lot slower than the years prior. I wonder if this would affect how many seats in the house California has, because of the huge decrease in population. 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/population-exodus-2023-18566180.php 

The number of people living in California fell below 39 million this year which is the lowest population count since 2015. The state’s population peak was in 2019 with about 39.5 million people but since then the population keeps decreasing. 338,000 people left California this year which is more than the people that left the year before. This year California lost more people to the rest of the country than it gained.  

The article explains that some reasoning behind the population loss was that there wasn’t a large number of people born in the state. About only 303,000 people were born in California from July 2020 to July 2023. Another reason behind it was that the state’s number of deaths was about 111,000 people in the year 2022 to 2023. This means that a lot more people have died in California. Another reason behind this was that California because of the large increase in rent and other aspects of moving and housing California lost a lot of its residence to other states like New York and Washington. However it is said that throughout this time San Francisco’s population has grown in the past two years with a .3% increase. I wonder if the number of deaths have decreased because Covid hasn’t affected as many people as before.

AP News. (2023, June 21)

https://apnews.com/article/census-race-estimates

Last year the United States had over 260 million people identify as white. Phoenix Arizona had the biggest jump in the white population of any state getting more than 35,000 knew my residence in the last year. Immigration also drove Asian population growth last year accounting for 2/3 of the 500,000 person increase. Many of the different populations have been growing due to birth, as well as immigration and migration.

This article shows various forms of data where the Asian community, as well as the Hispanic population, has grown more than combined by more than 1 million people last year. This is mainly because of people who have since come to the country have stayed in the census of what they identify as. Because of its identification, there has been a spike in each of these communities. The population in the United States total has grown by over 20 million people in the last year. Most of these migrations happened in California and in Texas various cities in different states also were a part of this huge spike in the country’s population.

The Washington Post. (2023, June 22).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/

The United States population is torn between two different races and ethnicities Asian and Hispanic. This increase between these races or ethnicities has also shown the decline in the white community. A census created earlier this year says that they have more people who identify as Asian or Hispanic than white. This article shows how many different people can change the growth of the population, through what they can identify as.

This article furthermore proves that the more immigrants and more migration happens throughout the United States that there will be a decline in the white community. This article highlights the different data that shows how way people are affected by this increase in minorities. As a Latina, I wonder if the increase of minorities will continue to the point where other ethnic backgrounds are no longer the minority and white people will eventually become the minority. This topic of population growth and decline is very interesting to me because I’ve never really paid attention a lot to how much the human race has changed over the course of the years and it’s just very interesting to see how many people have learned to identify themselves which has created a increase and decline in certain aspects of the population.

CNN Politics. (2023, January 19).

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics

The US will have states that will shrink in terms of population. New data has come out that shows that immigration has risen up again in the last year which, for the US population is a good thing. Because of economic factors in immigration restrictions in the last couple of years, we’ve had a decrease in population, but in recent years we’ve had a spike in the population. Many people believe that the population realizes a lot more on immigrants because Americans are having for their children, but all of this correlates back to the economics of the country.

The article goes over the many different factors as to how many Americans are no longer having children and then he believes that is because of the recession that happened in 2007-2009 and many others believe that it is because of Covid. The article also goes over as to why some state populations are shrinking and growing. States like Florida and Texas have been attracting a lot more domestic migrants for economic reasons. People are afraid that the population will decrease as the years go by, but it is said that the population will continue to rise, but just very slowly. I wonder if people want more people in the United States. I also wonder why many white Americans are no longer having children, but there’s still a Rison population from Latino and Asian communities.

Census.gov. (2023, May 18)

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023

Texas has been named one of the fastest-growing states in the country. And Georgetown specifically was named the fastest-growing city. There are many different snapshots of data that show the growth in each of the states, leaning towards more specifically Texas. Texas has been shown to have more of an increase in immigrants as well as more births. Texas is known to have a large working population, which means that many people from different states good migrate to Texas leading to a larger growth in population. 

This article shows how much the area of a state can affect its population. The main focus of this article is Texas Texas, which is what are the closest states to many different areas where people immigrate from. Texas is also a state that has a large breaking population, which means that many people can migrate from different states and countries in order to achieve their desired jobs. The population shows how fluid the human race is in terms of its population. Humans can quickly raise their population, as well as decrease it, and just a matter of months and days. Humans rely on many different resources and are required to move around in order to get what is necessary for them. This article shows the various types of data in which Texas has been the most affected state in the country. 

Brookings. (2023, January 4).

 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-census-estimates-show-a-tepid-rise-in-u-s-population-growth-buoyed-by-immigration/

The United States population has been going through quite a lot of changes. There have been many different factors that contribute to the increase and decrease of the population. Factors such as immigration and Covid. Because of Covid, the population decreased and stayed at a standstill for more than a year due to all of the deaths and because of immigration, there has been an increase in population. It is also said that half of the United States, some more deaths than births during the years of 2021 and 2022. 

This article talks about how many of the states had very different outcomes throughout the last couple of years, especially during the Covid times. More states specifically on the West Coast suffered a lot more deaths than the states in the East. The reasoning behind this is claimed to be because of how crowded the majority of the West Coast states are in comparison to the East Coast states. States like California, Arizona, Washington, and Oregon were the majority of the states that had lost their population. In comparison to the states, of Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, Georgia has the most population numerically. The reasoning behind this could also be because of the population in each state. I wonder if California was said to have had one of the biggest losses only because they had so many people to begin with and at the beginning of the pandemic. I think that the supplies very much to APR mental science because of the changes coming so rapidly to the human race due to diseases.