Census Data: Los Angeles, San Francisco Metro Areas Saw Significant Population Decline During First Year Of COVID
The pandemic has intensified ongoing population trends of recent years and created some new ones. New data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed that, in the first full year of the pandemic, there was an exodus from the nation’s largest metros and rapid growth in Sunbelt metro areas. Smaller communities gained population after years of slow growth and decline. The exodus from the biggest U.S. metropolitan areas was led by New York, which lost almost 328,000 residents. It was driven by people leaving for elsewhere, even though the metro area gained new residents from abroad and births outpaced deaths. Metropolitan Los Angeles lost almost 176,000 residents, the San Francisco area saw a loss of more than 116,000 residents and greater Chicago lost more than 91,000 people from 2020 to 2021. The San Jose, Boston, Miami and Washington areas also lost tens of thousands of residents primarily from people moving away. On the flip side, the Dallas area grew by more than 97,000 residents, Phoenix jumped by more 78,000 people and greater Houston added 69,000 residents, including Giusti. In the Phoenix metropolitan area, growth was driven by moves from elsewhere in the U.S., while it was propelled by a combination of migration and births outpacing deaths in Dallas and Houston.
Today on AirTalk, USC Professor of Sociology Manuel Pastor joins Larry to explore what these population drops in California’s two largest cities means for how metropolitan areas are changing across the state, what it portends for the suburbs and more rural areas to which people are moving, and what the driving forces are behind this shift in population.
The Gender Pay Gap Still Exists, But A New California Bill Aims To Close It
March 15 in the U.S. is Equal Pay Day, marking how far into the year the average woman would have to work to match what the average man earned by the end of the previous year. California has the fourth-smallest pay gap in the country, but studies show women in the state still lose a combined $87 billion a year due to the gap. A new bill introduced last month would require companies in the state with more than 100 employees to publicly report employee pay data and disclose salary ranges for open positions.
Today on AirTalk, we talk about the gender pay gap in California and efforts to close it with Laura Kray, professor of management of UC Berkeley and Jessica Ramey Stender, policy director and deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates.
COVID-19 AMA: Experts Worry About Next COVID-19 Surge, Airlines Push For End Of Mask Mandates, And More
In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Dean Blumberg, professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
Topics today include:
- Experts worry how U.S. will see the next COVID surge coming
- Airlines for an end to the mask mandate for travel
- We know about long COVID. Should there be a medium COVID?
- Evidence grows that vaccines lower the risk of getting long COVID
FilmWeek: ‘The Lost City,’ ‘Writing With Fire,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ And More
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.
- “The Lost City,” Wide Release
- "Nitram,” Laemmle’s Glendale & Laemmle’s Royal (West LA) on March 30; VOD; Streaming on AMC+
- "Writing With Fire," Airing on local PBS stations March 28 at 7:00 PM; Streaming on the PBS Video App; VOD (including iTunes & Google Play)
- "Everything Everywhere All At Once,” In select theaters, including AMC Burbank 16 & The Landmark (West LA)
- "7 Days," In select theaters, including the Alamo Drafthouse (DTLA) & AMC Universal CityWalk Hollywood 19 (Universal City)
- “Mothering Sunday,” The Landmark Theatre (West LA) on March 25 & AMC The Grove 14 (La Brea); Expands to Laemmle Theaters starting April 1
- “You Are Not My Mother,” In select theaters, including Laemmle’s Glendale Theater & The Laemmle Virtual Cinema; VOD
- “Infinite Storm,” Wide Release
- “King Otto,” Laemmle’s Royal Theater (West LA)