The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Overall, most programs increase employment and earnings among participants while receiving a subsidy. However, the ultimate goal is to improve long-term employment prospects of these workers. Research suggests that it is less common that programs lead to h igher employment or earnings after the subsidy ends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Food benefit amounts vary based on household earnings and household size. CalWORKs. Counties administer monthly cash grants for about 400,000 low ‑income families with children. Grant amounts vary based on earnings and family size.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - Under the CARES Act, adults earning less than $75,000 in their most recent tax filing (2019 for those who have already filed, 2018 otherwise) are eligible for a one-time cash payment of $1,200, and $500 for each child.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214

The 2017-18 Budget: The State Controller’s Office Unclaimed Property Program

Feb 24, 2017 - The Legislature could give the SCO more flexibility in how to spend these advertising dollars, allowing the department to advertise mor e through other media, such as radio, television, social media, and other internet advertising.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3584

Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program Review

Dec 2, 2025 - As shown in Figure  1 , reported state contract dollars received by DVBEs generally increased between 2018 ‑19 and 2022 ‑23. Notably, reported state contract dollars —both going to DVBEs and overall —reversed this general trend and decreased between 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5095

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - Efficiency allows government to better allocate limited resources (for example, taxpayer dollars, personnel, or time) to deliver services to the public. As such, identifying ways for state programs to operate more efficiently should be a goal of regular internal administrative review and legislative oversight.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - As a result, every dollar of new spending essentially requires making offsetting reductions elsewhere in the budget. Additiona lly, the budget faces a number of notable risks and  uncertainties —including  related to forecasted revenues, federal funding levels, and fire recovery  costs —that  could lead to the General Fund condition worsening over the coming months.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

State Fiscal Effects of California’s Minimum Wage

Nov 15, 2017 - Just as changes in household incomes will affect eligibility for certain state programs, it also will affect PIT payments —including the payments received from refundable credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3714

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Firms earning over 50  percent of their total income from a list of “qualified business activities ” (QBA) are subject to a different apportionment method that includes the location of their sales, payroll, and property.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Currently, about 3.3 million low –income households (who earn 80  percent or less of the median income where they live) rent housing in California, including 2.3  million very –low –income households (who earn 50 percent or less of the median income where they live).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345