Matt Levin is a senior reporter at Marketplace. He covers artificial intelligence and always speaks politely to chatbots, and suggests you do too. Other topics he regularly covers include housing, crypto, and the Fed. Before joining Marketplace, Matt covered California politics and policy as a data and housing reporter with CalMatters. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy from UCLA and in a past life did math for a think tank. But he was much better as a teenage cashier at Toys “R” Us.
!["Because [California is] a heavy tech economy, it means tech has a disproportionate impact on the state’s revenues," said Chris Hoene at the California Budget & Policy Center.](https://img.apmcdn.org/7154424151009a51199bb46733a6129ec02e7eaa/uncropped/59febb-2023-01-gettyimages-1393876536-e1673471629239-webp2000.webp)
