State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has revealed that New York City’s population has decreased during the pandemic, with the city losing nearly half a million people from April 2020 to July 2022.
This decline is attributed to a lack of births and migrants from abroad, while the state as a whole experienced a 2.6% drop in population.
In contrast, states like Florida and Texas saw growth during the pandemic, with New York’s progressive agenda being blamed for driving people away. (Trending: Judge Announces Historic Ruling In Jeffrey Epstein Case)
DiNapoli blamed a low birth rate and too few migrants for why New York has not replaced “the relatively large number of residents leaving.”
According to the Census Bureau, New York was one of just eight states to see their population drop, by a nation-topping 102,000, in the year ending July 1.
The city’s high cost of living, tax burden, housing rules, business mandates, climate laws, crime, and failing schools are cited as factors contributing to the exodus.
According to the report, “Yet the drivers of those high costs are New York’s nation-leading and ever-growing tax burden, self-defeating housing rules, onerous business mandates, insane climate laws and so on.
Additionally, the progressive agenda is criticized for potentially furthering the state and city’s decline.
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