Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - State Aims to Reduce Reliance on Costly Group Home Foster Care Placements While foster children living in family settings outnumber foster children living in group homes by approximately 9  to  1, total spending (all funds) is split roughly equally between the two groups.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - Between 1980 and 2015, the state ’s overall crime rate declined by about 60  percent. This decline is similar to trends in crime patterns in the rest of the United States. In 2015, about 3,000 crimes were committed in California per 100,000 residents —a total of about 1.2  million incidents.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - More than half of state infrastructure spending was for local infrastructure projects (such as local schools and roads) versus state projects (such as prisons and highways). About 60 percent of the state ’s infrastructure spending was financed using bonds.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - Cal Facts: 2016 Other Programs W ith a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, it would be impossible to quickly summarize how its economy or state budget works. The purpose of Cal Facts is more modest.
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - These plans include paying down pension unfunded liabilities and making regularly scheduled payments on infrastructure bond debt service. Legislation passed in 2014 aims to fully fund the teacher pension system (CalSTRS).
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Cal Facts: 2016

Dec 5, 2016 - The years 2012 through 2015 are the driest consecutive four-year stretch since the state started keeping records in 1896. This lack of precipitation has caused drought conditions around the state. Drought effects have included fallowed farm fields, groundwater depletion from increased pumping, dry residential wells, degraded habitats for fish and wildlife, and high rates of tree mortality in the state ’s forests.
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Cal Facts: 2016 [Publication Details]

Dec 5, 2016 - Cal Facts: 2016 [Publication Details] HTML Description: With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, it would be impossible to quickly summarize how its economy or state budget works.
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The 2017-18 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2016 - Under our current projections, assuming no changes in existing state and federal policies, we estimate the state will end the 2017-18 fiscal year with $11.5 billion in total reserves. This includes $8.7 billion in required reserves, which must be deposited into the rainy day fund, and $2.8 billion in discretionary reserves, which the Legislature can appropriate for any purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3507/1

Fiscal Outlook Supplement on Proposition 2

Nov 16, 2016 - In this process, the state reevaluates each year ’s BSA deposit twice: once in each of the two subsequent budgets. The state revises the BSA deposit up (down) if excess capital gains are higher (lower) than the state ’s prior estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3508

The 2017-18 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 16, 2016 - For UC, however, we back out one –time Proposition  2 payments for outstanding pension liabilities. For CSU, we exclude cost increases for retiree health and most pension contributions, as we forecast these as part of overall state employee costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3507