A Look at Recent Progress Toward Statewide Housing Goals [EconTax Blog]

Dec 15, 2016 - This modest improvement in building activity raises the question: how do recent building levels compare to state goals for housing production? Periodically, every community in the state is assigned a housing production target through a state-mandated process known as the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA).
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/226

Sales Tax Rates: Prop. 30 and Comparisons to Other States [EconTax Blog]

Dec 15, 2016 - Sales Tax Rates: Prop. 30 and Comparisons to Other States [EconTax Blog] Sales Tax Rates: Prop. 30 and Comparisons to Other States December 15, 2016 Seth Kerstein Sales Tax Rate Reduction on January 1 st .
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/227

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight [Publication Details]

Dec 14, 2016 - This report provides background information on Sacramento state office buildings and summarizes the actions taken in the 2016-17 budget process. It assesses the administration’s regional strategy for state office buildings in the Sacramento area. Finally, it provides recommendations to assist the Legislature as it faces key decision points related to the administration’s strategy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3516

California Community Colleges: Evaluation of Intersession Extension Pilot Program

Dec 14, 2016 - As a result, nearly 200 students —who generally mirror the broader LBCC student population —were able to accelerate progress toward meeting their educational goals at no additional cost to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3515

The Administration’s Sacramento Office Building Construction Strategy: Ensuring Robust Oversight

Dec 14, 2016 - This timeline is significantly faster than other state building projects. While DGS has not initiated the construction or major renovation of any state office buildings over the past ten years, it has generally taken the department at least six years to complete new state office building and major renovation projects in recent decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3516

California Community Colleges: Evaluation of Intersession Extension Pilot Program [Publication Details]

Dec 14, 2016 - As a response, the state enacted Chapter 710 of 2013 (AB 955, Williams), which permitted select colleges to offer, on a pilot basis, fully fee-supported credit-bearing courses during winter and summer intersessions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3515

California's New Minimum Wage: An Introduction to the Series [EconTax Blog]

Dec 6, 2016 - The first post highlights the parts of the state that will have minimum wages higher than the statewide minimum wage in 2017. The remaining three posts describe the population of low-wage workers in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/220

California's New Minimum Wage: Statewide Minimum Wage Increasing in January [EconTax Blog]

Dec 6, 2016 - Most Local Minimum Wages Are Slightly Narrower Than The State ’s. Very few employees are exempt from the statewide minimum wage. Most of California ’s local minimum wages have some additional exemptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/221

California's New Minimum Wage: Low-Wage Workers by Region [EconTax Blog]

Dec 6, 2016 - Overall, the figure suggests that the fully implemented minimum wage will directly affect a large share of workers in many parts of the state and a somewhat smaller share of workers in other parts of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/222

Statewide Minimum Wage Increasing in January

Dec 6, 2016 - Most Local Minimum Wages Are Slightly Narrower Than The State ’s. Very few employees are exempt from the statewide minimum wage. Most of California ’s local minimum wages have some additional exemptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3512