Hello, everyone. We're back with another edition of Ten Blocks. This is your host, Brian Anderson,

the editor of City Journal. This upcoming January, Democrat Jerry Brown will step down as governor

of California. After serving four discontinuous terms since the mid-70s, Brown is one of the longest

serving governors in American history, and one of

the most controversial.

His supporters say that he's brought California back from the depths of the Great Recession,

which hit the Golden State harder than most of the rest of the country.

But despite the governor's purported successes and the state's golden reputation, residents have been moving

out in greater numbers than they're moving in, and there are signs that California's problems

are not going to go away soon. Joining us on the show today is Joel Cockin. Joel is a contributing

editor to City Journal, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University,

and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. You can follow him on Twitter at

Joel Cochkin. His essay for City Journal, called Brownout, appeared in the spring 2018 issue,

and he writes regularly for us on California.

You can find all of that material on our website.

Joel, thanks very much, as always, for joining us.

My pleasure.

You write in this piece in the spring issue that California was once ground zero for upward mobility.

In fact, you even wrote a book about that some years ago called California Inc.

But you say in this new article that that's no longer the case.

How are things different now?

Well, I think there have been several significant changes.

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