Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - Figure  6 shows a measure of state revenue volatility put together by researchers at the Pew Charitable Trusts using 15 years of revenue collection data. According to this measure, California has one of the most volatile tax revenue systems in the country, ranking fifth out of 50 states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

The 2025-26 Budget: Single Sales Factor for Financial Institutions [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - "A New Panel Database on Business Incentives for Economic Development Offered by State and Local Governments in the United States. " Prepared for the Pew Charitable Trusts. Giroud, Xavier and Joshua Rauh (2019).
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/821

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Oct 10, 2023 - We note that research on the fiscal effect of numerous evidence ‑based practices is already available from a variety of sources, such as the Pew‑MacArthur Results First Initiative. (For more on the Pew‑MacArthur Results First Initiative, see the box below.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4806

The 2019-20 May Revision: Sales Tax Exemptions for Diapers and Menstrual Products

May 12, 2019 - For example, a 2010 Pew survey estimated that 86  percent of Americans regarded cars as necessities. We are not aware of any proposals to exempt cars from the sales tax. Broad Product Categories Can Include Both Necessities and Luxuries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040

Recent Report Compares California Inmate Health Care Costs to Rest of Nation

Jan 18, 2018 - When Pew previously conducted this survey in 2009 ‑10, California also had the highest health care costs per inmate of reporting states. California ’s Inmate Health Care Costs Grew Among Fastest in Nation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3733

Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - They are: a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts Fiscal Federalism Initiative and a report by the New York Comptroller’s Office . Both of these reports estimate figures for all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/7

Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - Pew ’s report also compares federal expenditures in each state to the size of its economy. According to the Pew estimates, in FFY 2013-14, federal expenditures made up about 16 percent of California ’s economy —less than the national average of 19 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3531/2

May Revision 2016: Economic Outlook [EconTax Blog]

May 15, 2016 - For more information, see Exhibit 5, page 18, of this 2011 report from the Pew Center on the States.) Both our office ’s contracted economics firm (Moody ’s Analytics) and the administration ’s believe that U.S. unemployment rates are likely to fall below 5.0 percent —a level approaching “ full employment ”—over the next few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/185

^[PDF] Improving In-Prison Rehabilitation Programs

Moreover, Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative Examination of Rehabilitation Programs The Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative works with states and other governmental entities to identify cost-effective government programs, including those in criminal justice such as in-prison rehabilitation programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3720/In-Prison-Rehabilitation-120617.pdf

^[PDF] Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Achieving the Goals of the SB 678 County Probation Grant Program
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4806/SB-678-Funding-Formula-101023.pdf