4th Quarter 2020 Venture Capital Funding Report [EconTax Blog]

Feb 18, 2021 - The state has always attracted a disproportionate share of nationwide VC funding, and in fact the state ’s VC funding has exceeded the other 49 states combined in each of the past seven calendar years.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/625

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the California Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 17, 2019 - These subsidies will be available beginning in January 2020 and continue for three years —through the end of calendar year 2022 —after which time they will sunset. (The spending plan offsets the costs of these new state subsidies using increased revenues from the new state individual mandate, as described in the section on tax and other revenue policy changes.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4083

^[PDF] Figure 9_K-12 Education Programs Funded by Proposition?98.indd

TK numbers below refl ect LAO estimates. b Less than 0.5 percent. c Does not include wrap care provided by non-local education agencies. d In each of the past three years, Partnership Academies also have received between $8 million and $9 million from the California Community College’s CTE Pathways Program. e In each of these years, the state provided program
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3326/9.pdf

U.S. Retail Sales Update: December 2023 [EconTax Blog]

Jan 17, 2024 - Retail Sales Update: December 2023 January 17, 2024 Seth Kerstein Today the U.S. Census Bureau released preliminary estimates of nationwide retail sales in December 2023 and revised estimates for November 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/794

U.S. Retail Sales Update: December 2023 [EconTax Blog]

Jan 17, 2024 - Retail Sales Update: December 2023 January 17, 2024 Seth Kerstein Today the U.S. Census Bureau released preliminary estimates of nationwide retail sales in December 2023 and revised estimates for November 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/794

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Other Provisions

Oct 17, 2019 - In some cases, agencies or departments are not authorized to make expenditures on the development and implementation of a project until 30 calendar days after written notification of the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4101

December 2019 Jobs Report [EconTax Blog]

Jan 27, 2020 - The growth of the health sector has been both fast and stable: it is the only sector to add jobs in every calendar year since 1991, and its growth rate has exceeded the statewide average growth rate in all but one year since 2001.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/431

^[PDF] The State's Retirement Systems: Fiscal Issues for 1993-94

(The General Fund ultimately would bear about $450,000 of the cost since roughly 25 cents of every dollar spent by the PERS is reimbursed to the PERF by the General Fund through employer contributions.)
https://lao.ca.gov/1993/reports/states_retirement_systems_0393_reprint.pdf

1998 Cal Facts California's Economy

In 1997, slowing California exports to Asia were offset by increased sales to Canada, Mexico, and European markets. However, there is emerging evidence that Asia's problems are significantly affecting sales and profits of numerous California industries in 1998.
https://lao.ca.gov/1998/1998_calfacts/98calfacts_economy.html

^[PDF] 1975 Budget Analysis: Judicial

. $123,128 $348,021 $121,947 by 12:2 percent, reflecting the full-year costs of 25 new judgeships and the higher contribution base attributable to the September 1, 1975 salary in- crease of 13.38 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1975/03_judicial_1975.pdf