“This is really a huge challenge, unprecedented in my lifetime,” Jerry Brown said.
Gregor Macdonald adds, “Uptick in economic flow is not enough to move the trailing dead-weight of US unemployment–which is now becoming structural.
“For anyone who would like to challenge the notion and assert that ‘California is not the US economy’ I would say this: Sorry, but California is indeed the US economy.
“The US will be going nowhere without the full participation–if not the leadership–of California.”