California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Fair market rent is the 40 th percentile of the rent distribution for a given apartment type (such as studios or two-bedrooms). We make these comparisons for seven different types of households, matching each household type to an apartment type that is modest but sufficient to avoid overcrowding (see the Appendix for details).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Evaluation of a Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Manufacturers

Dec 11, 2018 - Assumptions That Understate Net Benefit Omits Indirect Job Creation. CAEATFA application scoring includes two types of jobs. The first type consists of employees who work for the business that purchases the tax ‑exempt equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3907

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - The prominence of advanced manufacturers among credit recipients is consistent with the intent of the program, since (1)  these types of facilities can locate in many parts of the United States, making tax incentives a potential deciding factor, and (2)  they tend to provide relatively well-paid jobs, which increases the competitiveness of their applications.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Finally, we described how we matched household types to apartment types for the analysis of housing costs. Strengths and Weaknesses of Data Sources Primary Data Source: Monthly Current Population Surveys (CPS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Using Simple Metrics to Estimate Effects: A Cautionary Example. Many factors affect tax revenues, and it can be difficult to disentangle any given factor from the others. Consequently, simple metrics —such as the difference between revenue before and after a change in tax rates —can produce misleading estimates about the effects of the rate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - New Minimum Wages for Certain Types of Employers. In 2023, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed two industry-specific minimum wages: one for fast-food chains (Chapter  262 [AB  1228, Holden]), and another for health care facilities (Chapter  890 [SB  525, Durazo]).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

Options for Modifying the State Child Care Tax Credit

Apr 7, 2016 - We only describe the effects on other types of households in the first option, but the effects on these other types of households would generally be proportionally similar under options 2 through 4. Cost Estimating Challenges and Considerations Minimum Wage Changes Will Affect Cost Estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3417

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Natcast plans to ramp up the facility ’s design and prototyping work over time, once it renovates the facility to enable those types of activities. Governor ’s Proposal $25  Million for Semiconductor Design Facility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - To move forward with these types of changes or others, the state needs to fix the system. Our Approach to Fixing the State ’s UI System. Although the pandemic pushed the state ’s UI system past the breaking point, the genesis of this crisis traces back decades —as early as the 1980s.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - The most common type of overpayment is when a worker does not end their UI payments when they take a new job. These overpayments are relatively easy to detect because employers must report new hires to the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615