CalFacts 2024 [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2024 - CalFacts presents a wide range of facts and trends about the state's economy, finances, and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4942

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Relatedly, action taken in Chapter  27 of 2025 (AB  1138, Zbur and Allen) makes additional changes to version 4.0, including but not limited to: increasing the size of tax credit awards as a percentage of qualified expenditures, expanding the range of productions that are eligible for the credit, and enhancing the size and scope of the Career Pathways Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - Given these limitations, our CURES analysis focuses on buprenorphine, which we understand to be more widely used for opioid use disorder than naltrexone and available in a wider range of clinical settings than methadone.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - Historically, The IHSS utilization rate has been quite high —in the high-80  percent to low-90  percent range. Utilization rates for the most recent expansion groups —the 26-49 and 50 and above age groups (currently, there is no readily available utilization rate data for the age 18 and under or age 19-25 expansion groups) —have lagged behind these historical utilization rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Across states, the percentage of TANF recipients who were children ranged from 53  percent in Kansas to 98  percent in Idaho. Participant Demographic Characteristics In the following sections, we describe the demographic characteristics of CalWORKs participants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - These higher costs are more than offset by a range of other areas where the administration’s cost estimates are lower. For example, constitutionally required debt payments are $1.1 billion lower under the administration’s estimates and the administration scores a higher entering fund balance—largely due to over $1 billion in additional revenue accruals—in 2023‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - In addition, a salary range is established for each classification. These salary ranges determine the minimum and maximum salaries that an employee may earn in that job classification. CalHR Oversees Non ‑Merit Personnel Policies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - For example, in 2016 the lowest expected range of performance for a local administrator was 50.2  percent to 61.9  percent. The highest expected range of performance for a local administrator for the same year was 77.9  percent to 91.4  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

The 2022-23 Budget: California Food Assistance Program

Feb 11, 2022 - The budget ‑related legislation stated only that the expansion would be age ‑based but did not specify which age ranges would first benefit; these details were expected to be determined as part of this year ’s budget  discussions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4532

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Increase in State Funding for Local Child Support Agencies

Mar 26, 2019 - Ultimately, updating the state ’s child support program could result in changes to local operations and a corresponding change to funding needs that would require a new, wide ‑ranging budgeting methodology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3989