CA: Davis' record a mixed bag when it comes to business

California has blossomed into the world's fifth-largest economy in the past four years, aides to Gov. Gray Davis like to say, up from No. 7 when he took office.

They also boast of the 1 million jobs created on Davis' watch, even allowing for the layoffs of the past two years.

Zaremberg said the family leave law gives skeptical out-of-state business owners another reason to avoid California.

"We're the only one in the country (with paid family leave), and that's never a good position to be in," he said.

Davis' defenders look at it differently. Raising workers' comp benefits and paying employees for family leave actually enhance the business climate, Hatamiya said, by ensuring that California workers are "the healthiest and most productive in the world."

That's assuming the MTBE and DioXin doesn;t get to those California workers. :-\

I saw the title, "Mixed bag," and thought, "Mixed? What good is there?

Then I saw it. "Sacramento Bee." Oh.

Well, I guess we're lucky they acknowledge even some of the damage he's done.

Dan

I'll ping the list.

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Blossomed? The state has more unemployed than the rest of the country combined!

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