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 - The current discrepancy over the size of the state ’s budget deficit —$18  billion under the Legislative Analyst ’s Office estimate versus $3  billion in the Governor ’s budget —fits squarely within that pattern.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

^[PDF] Voters FIRST Act for Congress 2021

The measure states that the commission will approve congressional redis- tricting maps every ten years beginning in 2021 (following the 2020 census). The com- mission would draw congressional districts essentially as it draws other district lines under Proposition 11.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2010/100102.pdf

Home Price Update: October 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Nov 18, 2021 - The next figure shows a sharp slowdown in California month to month home price growth over the past 3 months. The October state growth rate of 0.70 percent was the lowest since July 2020, if still high by historical standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/714

^[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
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2005/CalWORKs_program_030905.pdf

Home Prices Update: September 2021 [EconTax Blog]

Oct 20, 2021 - Home Prices Update: September 2021 [EconTax Blog] Home Prices Update: September 2021 October 20, 2021 Brian Uhler Home prices are important to the California economy for a number of reasons. In the short and medium terms, home price increases often drive construction activity, which in turn spurs employment growth in a wide range of sectors.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/706

^[PDF] State Constitutional Officers

The measure would result in (1) state savings for state-elected officials’ salaries of several hundred thousand dollars; (2) no reduction in total legislative expen- ditures, given current provisions of the Constitution; and (3) unknown, probably not significant, election costs in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2001/010016_INT.pdf

^[PDF] The Citizens Fair Districts Act (version 1)

Brown Jr. 2 April 3, 2007 ure establishes a process for the Secretary of State to determine the members of the com- mission. The process would begin with 160,000 randomly selected voters from across the state and eventually reduce that number to 11 members (and 11 alternatives) through a combination of voter information forms, random selections, and legislative leadership input.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070250.pdf

^[PDF] The Citizens Fair Districts Act (version 3)

The measure specifies that a minimum of $3 million or the amount provided for the last redistricting process (adjusted for inflation) would be provided for the new re- districting process. Fiscal Effect The Legislature spent about $3 million in 2001 on redistricting.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2007/070253.pdf