The California Dream Has Become the California Struggle
Today’s Golden State Feels Like the Island in ‘Survivor,’ Says Zócalo’s Joe Mathews
What is the historic “California dream”—the one people still talk about today? How does California’s 21st-century reality differ from that dream? And what is the California dream of today and the future? Answering these questions, said Zócalo California and innovation editor Joe Mathews, is key to understanding this big, complicated state—and creating a shared story for today’s Californians. “We are way overdue for an assessment not only of who we are, but who we want to be,” said Mathews. Over the past two years, Mathews has written Zócalo’s “Connecting California” …
