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Bay Area Could Use a Fresh Wave of Chinese Immigrants

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Bay Area Could Use a Fresh Wave of Chinese Immigrants
Pedestrians walk by the San Francisco Centre mall in San Francisco on June 14, 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Marc Joffe
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The nine Bay Area counties in California have lost around 175,000 people since 2020, and deaths are expected to surpass births in 2029. With U.S. citizens continuing to move out of the region at a faster pace than they move in, the best hope of recovering our population is international immigration.
Marc Joffe
Marc Joffe
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Marc Joffe is a fellow at California Policy Center. He has previously covered California High-Speed Rail for Reason Foundation and the Cato Institute, where he was a federalism and state policy analyst. After a long career in the financial industry, including a senior director role at Moody’s Analytics, he transitioned to policy research, having worked until recently at Reason Foundation. Joffe’s research focuses on government finance and state policy issues.
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