The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - For example, UC Los Angeles ’s Center for Education Innovation & Learning in the Sciences hosts a fellows program for faculty interested in redesigning their physical sciences courses to reduce equity gaps.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

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

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - Additionally, CDCR places people in prison based on a host of factors beyond their need for mental health, such as medical, rehabilitation, and security needs. Some prisons in easier ‑to ‑recruit areas may not be able to serve all of these other needs of some patients.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - These activities include engaging with families, local educational agencies, higher education institutions, community-based organizations, and nonprofits, as well as hosting educational webinars about the CalKIDS program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

Rethinking California's Reserve Policy

Apr 10, 2025 - In March of 2004, on the heels of the dot ‑com bust, voters passed Proposition  58, which created the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA). In the 2006 ‑07 budget, the Legislature deposited $472  million into the BSA and in 2007 ‑08 deposited $1.5  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5028

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - CDSS indicated it would host a community of practice to facilitate sharing of challenges and successes between counties and would consider a process to provide counties with increased support on engaging families throughout the pilot.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978