^[PDF] Strategies for Improving Child Support Collections in California

Strategies for Improving Child Support Collections in California Percent of Cases With an Arrears Collection Cost Effectiveness Expenditures Per Case Alabama 248,624 73.05% 51.26% 50.00% $3.95 $258.36 Alaska 46,387 86.82 55.49 66.63 4.50 467.43 Arizona 258,871 68.80 42.68 50.50 4.42 227.90 Arkansas 128,472 79.87 55.34 57.40 3.88 371.10 California 1,838,497 78.13 47.96 54.94 2.12 528.92 Colorado
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/child_support/child_support_050306.pdf

The 2016-17 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 22, 2016 - Governor ’s Proposal Shift GCP to DGS. The Governor ’s budget proposes to shift the GCP from VCGCB to DGS. As part of this shift, the budget transfers nine positions and $1.2  million in funding authority to DGS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3362

The 2022-23 Budget: Local Control Funding Formula

Jan 28, 2022 - Using this data and our updated projections, we estimate the COLA for 2022‑23 will be closer to 6.17 percent. Covering this higher COLA rate for LCFF would cost approximately $2.6 billion, an increase of $500 million compared with the estimate in the Governor’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4505

^[PDF] The 2022-23 Budget: Local Control Funding Formula

Using this data and our updated projections, we estimate the COLA for 2022-23 will be closer to 6.17 percent. Covering this higher COLA rate for LCFF would cost approximately $2.6 billion, an increase of $500 million compared with the estimate in the Governor’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2022/4505/LCFF-012822.pdf

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

^[PDF] Overview on Poverty

Despite its fl aws, the poverty thresholds allow researchers and policy makers to examine trends over time using a consistent measure.  Substantial Changes Set for 2011. In September 2011, the Census Bureau will publish two sets of poverty data.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2011/Poverty_Overview_05_10_11.pdf