California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Many California cities —and the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County and San Mateo County —set minimum wages that exceed the $16-per-hour statewide minimum. We list some of these policies in Figure  1 below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

U.S. Retail Sales Update: February 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 14, 2024 - U.S. retail sales have dropped 0.4 percent over the last 3 months and grown 1.5 percent over the last 12 months. The 12-month growth rate was below the rate of inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/802

U.S. Retail Sales Update: February 2024 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 14, 2024 - U.S. retail sales have dropped 0.4 percent over the last 3 months and grown 1.5 percent over the last 12 months. The 12-month growth rate was below the rate of inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/802

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version)

Oct 16, 2023 - The 2023 ‑24 total also includes $135  million for contingencies related to the 2023 storms —$40  million for the communities of Planada in Merced County and Pajaro in Monterey County, which experienced severe damage and displacement from the storms, and $95  million for other response and recovery activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4788

Local rent control laws. [Ballot]

Feb 10, 2023 - If cities or counties create new rent control laws or expand existing ones, local rent boards would have increased costs. For communities where rent control laws expand automatica lly, costs also could increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2022-008

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - The Bridge program is jointly administered by DSS and county welfare departments. County participation in the Bridge program is voluntary. Currently, 48 counties are participating in the Bridge program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

October 2016 State Jobs Report [EconTax Blog]

Dec 1, 2016 - Follow @LAOEconTax on Twitter for regular California economy and tax updates.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/203

November 2015 Jobs Report [EconTax Blog]

Dec 18, 2015 - Follow @LAOEconTax on Twitter for regular California economy and tax updates. -- The state 's Employment Development Department  (EDD) and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics have released preliminary November 2015 jobs data for California.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/156

The 2024-25 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Feb 29, 2024 - Beginning in 2012-13, however, the historical county share-of-cost model was replaced with an IHSS county maintenance-of-effort (MOE), meaning county costs reflect a set amount of nonfederal IHSS costs as opposed to a certain percent of nonfederal IHSS costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4868

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - The budget provides $632,000 to offset reductions in property tax revenue experienced by basic aid school districts affected by the Kincade Fire, a wildfire that burned in Sonoma County in the fall of 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818