The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook Executive Summary Not Safe to Bet Artificial Intelligence ( AI) Fueled Exuberance Is Sustainable. Both the California and U.S. economies currently face significant headwinds.
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Federal Spending in California

Jan 18, 2017 - In FFY 2014-15, this federal funding included nearly $1 billion in grants to providers for early childhood education and other parental services through the Head Start program. These funds also inclu ded about $300 million in payments to telecommunications companies to provide discounts to schools and libraries for internet access and other telecommunication services.
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Strong Tax Collections Belie California's Challenging Fiscal Outlook

Apr 26, 2022 - As a result, increased yields on short-term Treasury notes, reflecting the Fed ’s efforts to head off inflation, can approach or exceed the yield on longer-term notes. As displayed in Figure  1, this spread briefly fell into negative territory in early April 2022, from 1.29  percentage points on October 8, 2021.
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The 2026-27 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 12, 2026 - That said, recent budgets have set the SFEU bet ween $3.5  billion and $4.5  billion, so the Governor ’s budget proposal to set the balance to $4.5  billion is generally in line with recent policy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5101

The 2021-22 Budget: CalWORKs Fiscal Outlook

Dec 8, 2020 - Some cases exit because the head of household forgets to submit their redetermination or makes an error on the paperwork, and many of these families successfully re ‑file the next month. Executive Order N ‑28 ‑20 suspended CalWORKs redeterminations for the months of March, April, and May.
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