California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The main exception is that high wages are top-coded: all wages above a certain amount are assigned the same value. In high-wage states like California, top-coding seriously hinders analyses that consider the upper portion of the wage distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California's Fiscal Outlook: The 2010-11 Budget [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2009 - The budget problem consists of a $6.3 billion projected deficit for 2009–10 and a $14.4 billion gap between projected revenues and spending in 2010–11. Addressing this large shortfall will require painful choices—on top of the difficult choices the Legislature made earlier this year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2143

How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues?

Jun 20, 2017 - Over the past decade, around 10  percent of property transfers have taken advantage of the parent-to-child exclusion to prevent an increase in property tax payments. Figure  6 shows how many of these exclusions have been used each year during the past decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3693

Income Mobility in California Across Generations - Income Mobility from the Top, Middle, and Bottom [Video]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Income Mobility from the Top, Middle, and Bottom January 4, 2017
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=108&videoId=166

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - It is comfortably within the range of minimum wage increases in the U.S. over the last four decades —closer to the bottom of that range than the top. Coming Into 2024, Roughly 10  Percent of Workers Made $16 Per Hour or Less.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Oct 31, 2017 - Tradability is important in the context of California Competes because the expansion of such businesses need not come at the expense of other California businesses —economic growth is not a zero sum game.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3709

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - In December 2020, EDD hired a fraud consultant to review nearly 10  million claims issued during the pandemic for potentially fraudulent characteristics. In its review, the consultant flagged 1.1  million claims as potentially fraudulent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - Just over 20 percent of these children end up in the top two–fifths as adults. Outcomes Among Children Born Into Top Fifth of Incomes. Figure 6 shows that 53 percent of Californian children born in the top fifth remain in the top two–fifths as adults.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Provides $10  Million to Renew the Helping Justice-Involved Reenter Employment Program. The 2025-26 budget plan includes $10  million for a grant program supporting non-profits who provide training and employment to individuals who were recently incarcerated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jul 1, 2021 - The top panel of the figure summarizes the total weight of donations whose weights were specified in the Metrc data. The bottom panel summarizes the number of donated packages whose weights were not specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4447