The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This amount includes $10  million for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup security costs, $10  million for Family Justice Centers, and $8  million to the City of Los Angeles for fire engine purchases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Oct 31, 2017 - We also think the resources consumed by the program are not as focused as they should be on winning economic development competitions with other states to attract major employers that sell to customers around the country and the world.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3709

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Miller, Keaton and Boyoung Seo (2019). “Tax Revenues When Substances Substitute: Marijuana, Alcohol, and Tobacco. ” Mimeo, University of Oregon. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - In principle, the best way to estimate this effect would be to examine outcomes in two hypothetical worlds: one where a set of individuals grew up in California and another where those same individuals grew up somewhere else.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - Importantly, assessing these models ’ reliability can be difficult because there often are major practical barriers to checking the assumptions and predictions against real ‑world outcomes. For example, differentiating a particular policy ’s effect on employment from the variety of other complex factors that drive employment changes is very difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - (Workers were listing date, month, year as is customary in many parts of the world.) EDD sent these applications to manual review. In response, the department improved its online application to reduce confusion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - In our November Fiscal Outlook , we found the state has sufficient reserves to cover operating deficits in the event of a typical post‑World War II recession. This finding was based on two important assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135