Base Closing Impacts on California

The closures of 19 military bases in California directly cost more than 44,000 civilian jobs, and fewer than 26,000 new ones have been created to replace them, according to a government report that says California's recovery lags the nation's.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon still must spend more than $1.6 billion to clean up chemicals and unexploded munitions at some of the shuttered bases in the state, the study says.

Get the full report at GAO here.