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Updated · Fox News · Sep 1

California Affordability Crisis Threatens $100,000 Defense Jobs and 30-Plus Installations

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Sep 1

California Affordability Crisis Threatens $100,000 Defense Jobs and 30-Plus Installations

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 1

$90,000-to-$100,000 defense manufacturing jobs in California are growing harder to fill because workers increasingly cannot afford to live near them, the report argues.
Rent nearing $3,000 a month, along with high energy, insurance, food and tax costs, is pushing welders, machinists, mechanics and technicians to consider cheaper states.
That strain lands on an already thin pipeline: the U.S. defense industrial base faces an aging workforce, looming retirements and too few young workers entering skilled trades.
The piece calls for more apprenticeships and career education, but says Sacramento also must build more housing, cut regulatory and energy costs, and make factory expansion easier.
The broader warning is that California's cost burden is no longer just an economic issue; it risks weakening a state central to U.S. aerospace, shipbuilding and national security.

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With 600,000 defense jobs empty, can California fix its housing crisis before the aerospace industry abandons the state entirely?

Could the push to replace foreign supply chains fail simply because America’s skilled workers cannot afford to live near the factories?

If defense contractors take weeks to hire while competitors take days, will bureaucratic red tape ultimately cripple America’s military readiness?

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