The 2021-22 Budget: Interest Payment on Federal Unemployment Insurance Loan

Feb 10, 2021 - Under current state law, weekly UI benefit amounts are intended to replace up to 50  p ercent of a worker ’s prior earnings, up to a maximum of $ 450 p er week, for up to 26 weeks. In 2019, the average benefit amount was $ 330 p er week.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4360

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget approved the first step of this plan by providing an across ‑the ‑board 10  p ercent grant increase effective April 1, 2019. The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages

Feb 10, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages The 2021-22 Budget Creating a New Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages The Governor ’s budget for 2021 ‑ 22 p roposes to consolidate state workforce programs under a new Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4361

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Each year that General Fund tax revenues grow, this 10  p ercent threshold also grows. As such, in each of these years, the state is required to make deposits into the BSA to bring the fund to the revised estimate of 10  p ercent of General Fund taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 19 (Health and Social Services/Professional)

Sep 1, 2023 - The proposed agreement would increase the to p step of specified classifications ’ salary ranges. Employees who have been at the top step of an eligible classification for at least a year would automatically receive the specified pay increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4797

The 2017-18 Budget: Governor’s CalPERS Borrowing Proposal

May 16, 2017 - For much of the late 1990s and 2000s, the yield averaged around 6  percent, although it fell after the dot-com bust and ensuing recession in the early 2000s. After the rate fell in 2008, it has remained near zero as inflation and U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3673

Unit 8 (Firefighters) MOU Analysis

Aug 26, 2022 - For example, the Legislature may wish for this p olicy change to result in reduced overtime and reductions in firefighter fatigue (as opposed to increased overtime). Achieving this goal likely would require significant future increases to staffing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4621

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, lower and warmer water levels in the Sacramento River in the summers of 2014 and 2015 resulted in the death  of 95  p ercent of the river ’s juvenile winter ‑run Chinook salmon in those years —practically  eliminating two out of three existing cohorts of this endangered species.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575