The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Facilities. The budget provides a net increase of $23  million one-time General Fund for the construction phase of the Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Site project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - To summarize, in Figure  3 , we provide relative assessments of each option using our criteria, dividing them into “green ” for the best measures on each criterion, “yellow ” for measures where some deficiency is identified, and “red ” for measures we judge to be significantly deficient.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues?

Jun 20, 2017 - 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. Potential revenues gains are more moderate for these cities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3693

Volatility of California’s Personal Income Tax Structure

Sep 28, 2017 - The compound annual growth rate over this four ‑year period was 5.2  percent, as shown by the red line. The growth rate in 2011 was 6.8  percent, which is 1.6  percentage points above the compound annual growth rate, so the annual deviation for 2011 is 1.6.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3703

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - (The small red area of the figure represents this smaller fraud estimate.) EDD Puts Significant Focus on Fraud Prevention. Due to a concern that workers may lie to get UI payments, EDD ’s practices have evolved over time to meticulously scrutinize worker eligibility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615