The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages [Publication Details]

Feb 10, 2021 - Furthermore, reorganizing a portion of the Employment Development Department during the pandemic poses potentially serious risks to the state's efforts to eliminate the growing backlog of unemployment insurance claims that have not been distributed to workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4361

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 23, 2020 - These dollars are used to reimburse the state and federal government for costs associated with providing CalWORKs benefits to the family. However, states can “pass-through ” or allow CalWORKs families to keep a portion of the monthly child support payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4286/9

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Transportation

Oct 5, 2020 - Replacement of Contractors With State Employees. The budget includes $16  million on an ongoing basis from Proposition  1A (2008) to support 85 new state staff positions in areas such as information technology (IT), project delivery, and finance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4272

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Medi-Cal Budget

Feb 16, 2021 - Medi ‑Cal Is the State ’s Largest Health Care Program, Covering Over 13   Million Low ‑Income Californians. Medi ‑Cal is the state ’s Medicaid program and provides health care coverage to over 13  m illion Californians with low incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4373

August 2020 Jobs Report [EconTax Blog]

Sep 18, 2020 - The state ’s leisure and hospitality sector lost 15,000 jobs in August compared to a nationwide gain of 174,000. Excluding this sector, the state accounted for 9.7 percent of August nationwide job growth, still somewhat below its share of total jobs in February.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/549

Improving California’s Response to the Environmental and Safety Hazards Caused by Abandoned Mines

Aug 4, 2020 - Historically, these funds have been insufficient to address all known federal and state orphan sites. For that reason, DTSC prioritizes funding the state share of costs associated with federal NPL sites with remaining funds prioritized to the worst state orphan sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4258

Early Budget Actions to Support In-Person K-12 Instruction and Address Learning Loss

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4417

The 2021-22 Budget: Behavioral Health: Medi-Cal Student Services Funding Proposal

Feb 17, 2021 - Both state and local funding is available to support these partnership efforts. Counties can use their local funds to support these relationships, and state grant funding through the Mental Health Stude nt Services Act program also has been made available to counties to support these efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4377

April 2020 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog]

May 22, 2020 - April 2020 State Tax Collections [EconTax Blog] Seth Kerstein Total collections from the state ’s “big three ” taxes (personal income tax, corporation tax, and sales tax) were down two-thirds from April 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/469

Snapshot of the California Economy: August 2020 [EconTax Blog]

Oct 2, 2020 - Overall, the pace of the recovery in the state ’s economy appeared to slow a bit.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/557