The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Since 1992-93, furloughs have been used in nine fiscal years (1992-93, 1993-94, 2003-04, 2008-09 through 2012-13, and 2020-21). Furloughs typically reduce state employee pay by roughly 5  percent for every day-per-month of furlough.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

Building California’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure: Progress Update and Opportunities for the Proposition 1 Bond

Feb 5, 2025 - From 2008 ‑2010 to 2017 ‑2019, the share of California young adults surveyed who indicated having serious thoughts of suicide increased by about 50  percent, from 6.6  percent to 10.1  percent. From 2008 ‑10 to 2018 ‑20, rates of suicide in California among youth aged 15 through 24 increased by more than 20  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4954

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program a Calculated as the average felony probation failure ‑to ‑prison rate between 2006 and 2008. b State savings were calculated at about $29,000 per person diverted from prison and parole.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule

Feb 27, 2023 - This change had the effect of accelerating tax collections from 2009 ‑10 into 2008 ‑09, thereby improving the 2008 ‑09 budget condition. As the state ’s fiscal situation continued to deteriorate in 2009, the 2009 ‑10 budget package again changed the quarterly estimated tax payment schedule to collect 70  percent in the first half of the fiscal year and 30  percent in the second, improving the 2009 ‑10 budget condition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4722

The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs

Mar 5, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: Overview of the Federal Fiscal Responsibility Act's Impacts on CalWORKs 24 Failed a Due to the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009, states could receive the caseload reduction credit from either 2007 or 2008 for WPR calculation from 2008 to 2011.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4877

The 2024-25 Budget: Temporary Corporation Tax Increases [EconTax Blog]

May 17, 2024 - Should the Governor ’s proposal take effect, the state will have disallowed NOL deductions in nearly half of years between 2008 and 2027. At this rate, it seems reasonable to ask whether suspensions have begun to meaningfully undermine the purpose of allowing NOL deductions in the first place.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/804

The 2024-25 Budget: Temporary Corporation Tax Increases [EconTax Blog]

May 17, 2024 - Should the Governor ’s proposal take effect, the state will have disallowed NOL deductions in nearly half of years between 2008 and 2027. At this rate, it seems reasonable to ask whether suspensions have begun to meaningfully undermine the purpose of allowing NOL deductions in the first place.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/804

U.S. Retail Sales Update: December 2022 [EconTax Blog]

Jan 18, 2023 - Seven of the prior eight instances (September-December 2008, March 2009, and March-April 2020) occurred during recessions, while the other (December 2001) occurred immediately after a recession. That said, only two of those drops (September 2008 and March 2009) were of a similar magnitude to this one; the others were substantially larger.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/767

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Doctoral students entering UC  Merced from 2008 through 2010 had a two ‑year retention rate of 83  percent, a four ‑year retention rate of 68  percent, and an eight ‑year completion rate of 62  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - However, beginning in 2008, the voters established the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC) and made the CRC res ponsible for drawing and approving new district boundaries every ten years with the passage of Proposition  11 in 2008 and Proposition  20 in 2010.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766