The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot [Publication Details]

Feb 21, 2025 - In March 2025, the federal government notified the five previously selected pilot states—California, Maine, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Ohio—that these states were deselected from the pilot project. The federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF) indicated it plans to take a new approach to the pilot program and will issue a new request for proposals from states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4978

^[PDF] Collective Bargaining

MINNESOTA USES ITS JOINT COMMITTEE TO APPROVE AGREEMENTS WHICH ARE REACHED WHEN ITS LEGISLATURE IS OUT OF SESSION. OFFICIALS IN BOTH OF THESE STATES APPEAR TO BE VERY SATISFIED WITH THIS APPROACH. MECHANISM FOR APPROPRIATING FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT AGREEMENTS.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1983/collective_bargining.pdf

California's New Minimum Wage: Low-Wage Workers by Region [EconTax Blog]

Dec 6, 2016 - (We downloaded the 2015 ACS data from IPUMS-USA, University of Minnesota, www.ipums.org .) For other posts in this series, click here . Follow @LAOEconTax on Twitter for regular California economy and tax updates.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/222

^[PDF] Strategies for Improving Child Support Collections in California

Strategies for Improving Child Support Collections in California Percent of Cases With an Arrears Collection Cost Effectiveness Expenditures Per Case Alabama 248,624 73.05% 51.26% 50.00% $3.95 $258.36 Alaska 46,387 86.82 55.49 66.63 4.50 467.43 Arizona 258,871 68.80 42.68 50.50 4.42 227.90 Arkansas 128,472 79.87 55.34 57.40 3.88 371.10 California 1,838,497 78.13 47.96 54.94 2.12 528.92 Colorado
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/child_support/child_support_050306.pdf

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Charter Schools

Minnesota, for example, recently began requiring initial training for new authorizers. (Minnesota has a relatively broad array of charter authorizers. Currently, the state department, 29 school districts, 20 postsecondary institutions, and 14 nonprofit organizations ch arter schools.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_09_Charter_Schools_anl05.htm

The 2017-18 Budget: The Board of Equalization

Mar 7, 2017 - Taken together, these facts suggest that many loans are de facto additions to board members ’ staff in excess of budgetary authority. LAO Recommendation Use Provisional Language to Restrict Board Members ’ Use of Resources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3609

^[PDF] Options for a State Earned Income Tax Credit

District of Columbia 40.0% Yes Vermont 32.0 Yes New York 30.0 Yes Connecticut 30.0 Yes Maryland 25.0 Yesa Delaware 20.0 No New Jersey 20.0 Yes Virginia 20.0 No Kansas 17.0 Yes Massachusetts 15.0 Yes Iowa 14.0 Yes Illinois 10.0 Yes Nebraska 10.0 Yes New Mexico 10.0 Yes Ohio 10.0 No Indiana 9.0 Yes Oregon 8.0 Yes Michigan 6.0 Yes Maine 5.0 No Oklahoma 5.0 Yes Rhode Island 3.75 Yesb Louisiana 3.5
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/health/2015/Options-for-a-State-Earned-Income-Tax-Credit-022515.pdf

Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Sep 6, 2017 - We describe the role of statistical adjustment in performance measurement in the TANF program of one state —Minnesota —in the following box. Performance Measurement in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Minnesota ’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, referred to as MFIP, is administered locally by 87 counties and four tribal employment service providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3702

^[PDF] California's Tax Gap

A 2002 Minnesota study estimated a state SUT gap of about $570 million in 2004, representing about 15 percent of SUT revenue received by Minnesota. Of this amount, about two-thirds was estimated to be the result of underreporting taxable sales and the remainder due to nonfiling of tax returns.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/revtax/2005/Californias_Tax_Gap_030105.pdf

COVID-19 and the Labor Market: Which Workers Have Been Hardest Hit by the Pandemic? [EconTax Blog]

Nov 2, 2020 - We downloaded the CPS microdata from IPUMS, hosted by the University of Minnesota.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/531