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

^[PDF] Unemployment and Disability Insurance

THE PANEL MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE ADDITIONAL SAVINGS BY USING EXISTING WORD PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS. UNFORTUNATELY, THAT ALTERNATIVE WAS NOT ADEQUATELY ASSESSED. 0 PROPOSED DESIGNS MAY BE UNWORKABLE.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1984/unemployment_and_disability_insurance.pdf

^[PDF] CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing

CalWORKs Program Overview Hearing Moving Toward Self-Sufficiency: Allowable Activities LAO 60 YEARS OF SERVICE L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E March 9, 2005 3 " One-Parent Family: A family is eligible for the one-parent com- ponent of the program if it includes a child who is financially needy due to the death, incapacity, or continued absence of one or both
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2005/CalWORKs_program_030905.pdf

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

^[PDF] HMOs and Rural California

In preparing this report, we obtained infor- mation from a variety of sources: ➢ We conducted interviews with repre- sentatives of a diverse set of key players in the rural health care com- munity, including beneficiaries, health operated health care systems, the California Medical Association, health policy researchers, state health care programs such as the Medi-Cal Program and
https://lao.ca.gov/2002/hmos_rural_ca/8-02_hmos_rural_ca.pdf

^[PDF] Community Hospital Taxes. (Version 1)

Maintenance of Existing Funding for Hospital Services The measure prohibits the use of any funding from these types of charges on com- munity hospitals to replace existing funds for hospital services provided to Medi-Cal patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090723.pdf

^[PDF] Community Hospital Taxes. (Version 3)

Maintenance of Existing Funding for Hospital Services The measure prohibits the use of any funding from these types of charges on com- munity hospitals to replace existing funds for hospital services provided to Medi-Cal patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090729.pdf

^[PDF] Community Hospital Taxes (Version 4)

Maintenance of Existing Funding for Hospital Services The measure prohibits the use of any funding from these types of charges on com- munity hospitals to replace existing funds for hospital services provided to Medi-Cal patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2009/090743.pdf