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Texas Beats Pricey California in Fortune 500 Company HQs

Texas Beats Pricey California in Fortune 500 Company HQs
A 'Welcome to Texas' sign stands on the side of the road near Dalhart, Texas, on May 9, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
John Seiler
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How embarrassing. California has dropped to third place in the 2022 list of Fortune 500 company headquarters (HQ) by state. The top state is now Texas, followed by New York. Yet Texas’s population of 28.6 million people, per the 2020 U.S. Census, is 73 percent of California’s—and New York’s 19.5 million is half of it.
John Seiler
John Seiler
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John Seiler is a veteran California opinion writer. Mr. Seiler has written editorials for The Orange County Register for almost 30 years. He is a U.S. Army veteran and former press secretary for California state Sen. John Moorlach. He blogs at JohnSeiler.Substack.com and his email is [email protected]
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