Latino GDP skyrocketed, boosting California’s economy to 4th largest in the world

Latino GDP skyrocketed, boosting California’s economy to 4th largest in the world

Guest Commentary written by David Hayes-Bautista David Hayes-Bautista is a distinguished professor of medicine at UCLA and co-authors Latino GDP Reports.  California has a third of the population of Japan — 39.4 million versus 122.8 million — but it has a larger gross domestic product than Japan. If California were its own country, it would have the world’s fourth largest economy; Japan would be fifth. What is California’s secret GDP sauce? In …