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

Mar 18, 2025 - Research suggests that it is less common that programs lead to h igher employment or earnings after the subsidy ends. Subsidized employment programs appear more likely to result in long-term benefits when: (1)  employers have a business model that makes it realistic for them to hire participants full time after the program ends and (2)  the target population is women or long-term unemployed workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - From our discussions with county tax collectors, we understand that these reasons often include: ( 1)  h omeowners with a principal residence who are unable to afford their property tax payments, ( 2)  d evelopers with unfinished housing projects, and ( 3)  h eirs who are not aware that they now own the property or cannot afford the tax payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We make this comparison across several different types of h ouseholds, with varying numbers of adults and children: For a single parent with three children, the statewide minimum wage is right around the poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

The 2017-18 Budget: California Competes Tax Credit

Feb 27, 2017 - H owever, the number of businesses claiming California Competes tax credits will steadily rise over the coming years —to as many as 1,000 —before tapering off as existing tax credit agreements end and no additional agreements, under current law, are signed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3586

The 2023-24 Budget: Considering Inflation's Effects on State Programs

Nov 16, 2022 - As  a  result, we  can say that the “real ” value of the state ’s dollar h as declined 10 percent. Lowers Quantity of Services. One of the most common impacts of elevated inflation for spending programs is a reduction in the quantity of state services provided.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4647

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - In this report, we concluded that the exemption likely h as some positive economic effects on the targeted industries in California. Whether the program had positive or negative net effects on the state ’s economy as a whole was unclear, however.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331

Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Oct 31, 2017 - However, as mentioned above, 21 businesses h ave voluntarily agreed to terminate their agreements. If FTB and GO ‑Biz determine a business is in material breach of the terms of its agreement, they notify the business and give it time to cure the breach.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3709

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Most significantly, the Governor proposes to: ( 1)  t o establish a uniform statewide schedule of prices at which drugs would have to be sold and ( 2)  h ave the state contract with drug manufacturers to create its own brand of generic drugs that would be available for purchase statewide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - The model uses two numbers to characterize these responses: ( 1)  t he extent to which changes in tax rates would result in changes in retail prices, and ( 2)  h ow strongly consumers respond to changes in retail prices.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125