2000 Budget Analysis: H&SS; DR 5160

For the VR/WAP program, based on data from the most recent eight months). bActuals for the VR/WAP and VR/SEP individual-placement programs are from August 1999. Supported Employment Program Projections: Group Placement Too Low, Individual Placement Too High.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2000/health_ss/hss_15_DR_5160_anl00.htm

LAO Analysis of the 1999-00 Budget Bill Transportation Departmental Issues

•The BPR will be complete at the end of the current year for the VR database, and the end of 1999-00 for the DL database. These projections reflect delays of about six months from last year's estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1999/transportation/transportation_depts1_anl99.html

^[PDF] A Review of the Shared Work Unemployment Compensation Program

.;-.J_,-_·: ::'·~< ·-·;;-:-vr~ ·-,-~-~-;~-q-;.·> .:~.-,_-.. · --~..,. ..... · Chapter 506, Statutes 9f 19~9 (SB 210), requi ~"M the LegjsJ ative. ----~Jj ·H.'·I~.:j·•'"· .!'··'!'-'; ". ·.:-« .. ,,,:;··,.~:·-) ·-.. :.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1984/a_review_of_the_shared_work_unemployment_compansation_program_8-84.pdf

^[PDF] Understanding the Veterans Services Landscape in Calfiornia

Veterans with service-connected disabilities may receive comprehensive career assessments, vocational counseling, job training, case management, and job placement services through the Veterans Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) program.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3525/veterans-services-011717.pdf

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 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

^[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 of one or both
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2005/CalWORKs_program_030905.pdf