California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Consequences of California's High Housing Costs [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - California's High Housing Costs - Overview [Video]

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The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - Money returned to the General Fund can be spent on a much wider array of programs than those supported by the Cannabis Tax Fund. Consequently, shifting enforcement costs from the Cannabis Tax Fund to the General Fund is inefficient.
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Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Tax rates also go down if few workers become unemployed and get UI payments. (Under this practice, known as “experience rating, ” a business ’ annual tax rate can range from 1.5  percent to 6.2  percent depending on how many prior workers get UI benefits.)
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Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - How Did We Get Here? State UI programs are supposed to be self ‑ sufficient —that is, the system should collect enough funds to pay for benefits over time. This means, in some years, the system will collect more than necessary so that, during economic downturns, there is enough money to pay for rising benefit costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues?

Jun 20, 2017 - How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues? How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues? Summary California ’s homeowners are getting older. In recent years, this has contributed to declining property sales and depressed property tax growth.
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Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? [Video]

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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - In this section, we aggregate data over this period to track cohorts of workers born in the same year to see how their rates of low-wage work change as they get older. Cohort Example. Consider, for example, workers born in 1981.
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Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - The statute outlining DEIA provisions for the film tax credit states that the goals of diversity workplans and initiatives should be “broadly reflective of California ’s population, in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, and disability status. ” To get a sense of how proportional the current labor force of tax credit recipients is relative to the population, Figure
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