A new business started nearly every minute of the day in California last year, according to a new report. The Golden State received 43,265 new business applications per month—or 59 per hour—in 2024, ...

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CNBC released its list of the top American states for business, and sadly California is not in the top 10. California received an F grade in terms of cost of living, cost of doing business, and ...

California is barely a middle-of-the-pack performer when scoring the state’s business climate against the rest of the nation. California got a below-average No. 30 ranking among the states when my ...

In this edition of his Employment Law column, Nicholas J. Pappas discusses California law governing sale-of-business non-competes and the case law addressing the nature of the ownership interest that ...

Government figures released Thursday show California's unemployment rate rose, while a Chapman University forecast predicts ...

A recent report from the Hoover Institution highlighted the ongoing exodus of companies pulling their headquarters out of California to escape the Golden State’s high tax and regulatory environment.

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Is there anything that breeds more cognitive dissonance in the heads of business prognosticators than the performance of the California economy? The question is inspired by the release of yet another ...