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

The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor’s Proposed Supplemental Pension Payment to CalPERS

Mar 4, 2019 - Over the next few decades, CalPERS would have more assets earning investment returns for more time —resulting in lower employer contributions than would otherwise be the case. Figure  2 shows CalPERS ’ projection of employer contributions with and without the payment under the median “stochastic ” scenario.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3957

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - These include the following: Investment Program. Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - Unserved areas and households are generally defined as those without access to broadband (as defined by the FCC). (In this brief, we use the terms households and locations interchangeably.) Underserved areas and households can be defined as those with access to broadband but without access to broadband at faster Mbps download and upload speeds with higher reliability and/or lower latency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

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

The 2023-24 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Mar 20, 2023 - Recent Major Funding Increase for Federal Broadband Programs Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Included $65   Billion for Broadband Programs Nationwide. In November 2021, the federal IIJA was signed into law providing $65  billion for broadband programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4747

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Creditable compensation includes educators’ salaries, as well as other eligible pay, such as pay earned for teaching a summer school class. Contribution Rates . The amounts that the state, employers, and members are required—by law and given board authority—to contribute to CalSTRS, calculated annually as a percentage of creditable compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - The scale of the homelessness crisis in California is significant and even substantial investments in resources could quickly dissipate without demonstrating much progress if investments are made without a clear plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

Broad-Based Cash Assistance in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Apr 3, 2020 - For example, individuals without children are not eligible for CalWORKs, whereas those who are still employed can only receive UI under certain conditions. Federal Government Issued One-Time, Broad-Based Cash Assistance in Last Two Recessions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4214

The 2016-17 Budget: Department of General Services

Feb 22, 2016 - One way is to look at the number of gallons of water saved per dollar invested. DGS estimates that the proposed project would result in annual savings of about three gallons of water per dollar invested based on the current operations of the Central Plant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3362