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Senate committee pushes for durable state industrial policy to keep manufacturing in California
Summary
Witnesses at a California State Senate select committee hearing urged lawmakers to turn one-time Jobs First grants into a durable regional economic development system, coordinate utilities for timely power delivery, and target sector roadmaps—especially for batteries—to capture middle-stage manufacturing jobs.
Chair Becker convened the Select Committee on Economic Development and Technological Innovation to examine Californias industrial policy and the states ability to retain and scale manufacturing. The hearing framed the problem as a missing middle: California excels at research and invention but often loses large-scale manufacturing to other states and countries.
Egon Turpin, regionalism fellow at California Forward, told the committee the Community Economic Resilience Fund (now Jobs First) established regional strategic plans but was a one-time investment. "We need a durable structure for regions to have a partner with the state,"…
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