California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The main exception is that high wages are top-coded: all wages above a certain amount are assigned the same value. In high-wage states like California, top-coding seriously hinders analyses that consider the upper portion of the wage distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - Just over 20 percent of these children end up in the top two–fifths as adults. Outcomes Among Children Born Into Top Fifth of Incomes. Figure 6 shows that 53 percent of Californian children born in the top fifth remain in the top two–fifths as adults.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Recent Actions Suggest Getting Payments to Workers Is Not a Top Priority In addition to longstanding policies and procedures that make it difficult for eligible workers to get benefits, recent actions during the pandemic also suggest that getting payments to eligible workers is not a top priority for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

Income Mobility in California Across Generations - Income Mobility from the Top, Middle, and Bottom [Video]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Income Mobility from the Top, Middle, and Bottom January 4, 2017
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=108&videoId=166

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jul 1, 2021 - The top panel of the figure summarizes the total weight of donations whose weights were specified in the Metrc data. The bottom panel summarizes the number of donated packages whose weights were not specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4447

California's Fiscal Outlook: The 2010-11 Budget [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2009 - Addressing this large shortfall will require painful choices—on top of the difficult choices the Legislature made earlier this year. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2143

How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues?

Jun 20, 2017 - Top Left: Older Homeowners, Lower Home Price Growth. Cities in this group —such as Hemet, Redding, and Richmond —have a significant amount of older homeowners but have experienced less home price growth in prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3693

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - It is comfortably within the range of minimum wage increases in the U.S. over the last four decades —closer to the bottom of that range than the top. Coming Into 2024, Roughly 10  Percent of Workers Made $16 Per Hour or Less.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - States at the top of the distribution include other Western states: Washington ($67,600), Hawaii ($56,700), Oregon ($50,900), and Alaska ($47,100). Substantially raising the state ’s taxable wage base would: (1)  improve solvency and (2)  mitigate the disincentive for businesses to hire low wage workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Filers who pay a top rate below 13. 3   p ercent will see a small net increase in state taxes, which in most cases would be more than offset by a decline in federal taxes. Benefits Would Be Concentrated Among Small Number of High ‑Income Filers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327