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.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

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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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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3693

Effect of Returning to Historical Estimated Tax Payment Schedule

Feb 27, 2023 - Due to Divergence From Equal Payments, Great Recession Changes Led to Modest Shift. As a result of the divergence from equal payments discussed above, in practice, the 2008 and 2009 timing shifts yielded relatively small tax payment shifts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4722

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - California property owners are getting older. The share of homeowners over 65 increased from 24  percent in 2005 to 31  percent in 2015. This trend is likely to continue in coming years as baby boomers —a major demographic group —continue to age.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - The state distributed a total of $24  billion in state UI payments in 2020 —more than double the former peak from the Great Recession. (This amount does not include payments from the temporary federal UI programs that were the subject of widespread fraud.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Volatility of California’s Personal Income Tax Structure

Sep 28, 2017 - Moreover, transfer payments tend to rise during recessions when other categories of income decline, so they serve to smooth out aggregate income from one year to the next. Why Do Graduated Rates and Other Provisions Make the PIT More Volatile?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3703

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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