Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - Recent changes were made to the publication of statistics required to calculate the California Necessities Index, which is used to adjust certain benefit rates and cost-of-living adjustments. In this brief, we provide details on the changes and evaluate alternatives for the index that require only currently available data and conform to the original intent of the index.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

Updating the California Necessities Index [Publication Details]

Aug 14, 2025 - Recent changes were made to the publication of statistics required to calculate the California Necessities Index, which is used to adjust certain benefit rates and cost-of-living adjustments. In this brief, we provide details on the changes and evaluate alternatives for the index that require only currently available data and conform to the original intent of the index.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5065

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - Stronger Social Networks. Places that produce greater mobility tend to have greater social cohesiveness or stronger social connections. Although social networks cannot be observed directly, researchers have developed other indicators to measure these attributes indirectly (for example, by measuring membership in community, religious, and other organizations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

The 2018-19 Budget: California Hiring Tax Credits

Mar 15, 2018 - These include businesses that provide temporary help services, retail businesses, restaurants and bars, casinos, and certain entertainment businesses. Starting Wages Must Be at Least 50   Percent Above Minimum Wage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3784

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Most Low-Wage Workers Live With at Least One Other Worker. Compared to mid-to-high-wage workers, low-wage workers are much less likely to live in households with exactly two workers and much more likely to live in households with three or more workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Expand Export Training Network. $2  million, one time, to expand an existing program in the international affairs and trade unit of GO ‑Biz that helps business owners export their products to other countries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4529

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - One-quarter of Californians live in a jurisdiction that paid rebates in 2023-24. Focusing on these areas, Figure  3 displays the distribution of rebate payments across jurisdictions, weighted by the number of residents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Single parents with one, two, or three children live in one-bedroom, two-bedroom, or three-bedroom apartments, respectively. An adult couple without children live in a studio/efficiency. An adult couple with one or two children live in a two-bedroom apartment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2023 - Quasi ‑experimental evidence from the entertainment industry. ” State and Local Government Review 51.2 (2019): 92 ‑103. Workman, Alec. “Ready for a close ‑up: The effect of tax incentives on film production in California. ” Economic Development Quarterly 35.2 (2021): 125 ‑140.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4713

California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences [Publication Details]

Mar 17, 2015 - California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences [Publication Details] Infographic Description: Living in decent, affordable, and reasonably located housing is vitally important to every Californian.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3214