Made in California - Year One - a podcast by GO-Biz

We started this podcast back in June to bring you in to our work building an economy in California that works for everyone. Since then, we’ve talked about the state of our economy – how the macroeconomic indicators, which show record job growth and a historic expansion, belie the staggering levels of income and wealth inequality we have in our state and nation. We’ve talked about how that inequality has a demographic element, rising as you look at race and gender, as well as a geographic element, with an imbalance in growth between our coastal and inland communities.

We’ve talked about ways we can address that – from supporting our small businesses and entrepreneurs to supporting better regions-based economic planning across the state, from upping our focus on international trade to upping our partnership with philanthropy, from examining the future of industries in California as well as the future of work, so that we are not just up-skilling workers but also upgrading the quality of jobs.

And, of course, we’ve talked about our affordability crisis across healthcare, education, and most notably, housing.

It’s been a busy year but it’s just the first for this Administration and before we let you go for the holidays, before we get ready to come back to a busy start to 2020, we want to take a look back with the Governor’s Chief Business and Economic Advisor, and the guy who is, more than anything else, the reason I took this job, Lenny Mendonca.

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