California Student Aid Commission Spending Proposals Under Governor’s Budget and May Revision [EdBudget]

May 18, 2025 - (Certain implementation processes make reaching the exact appropriation level difficult.) c Law Enforcement Personnel Dependents Grant Program. d Less than $500,000. e Provides $230,000 for Chief Information Security Officer position and $65,000 for employee compensation adjustments. f The 2021‑22 Budget Act appropriated $500 million General Fund for the Golden State Teacher Grant program to be spent annually from 2021‑22 through 2025‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/958

Early Data Revision Shows No Job Creation During 2024 Q4 [EconTax Blog]

Jun 24, 2025 - Taking advantage of this asynchrony, in 2021, researchers at the   Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia  began publishing state-level “early revisions” based on the same underlying data but revised more frequently. 
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/833

Early Data Revision Shows No Job Creation During 2024 Q4 [EconTax Blog]

Jun 24, 2025 - Taking advantage of this asynchrony, in 2021, researchers at the   Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia  began publishing state-level “early revisions” based on the same underlying data but revised more frequently. 
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/833

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Caseload Generally Increased Month Over Month Beginning September 2021. After beginning to increase in late 2021, caseload reached about 360,000 households at the end of 2023 ‑24 (an increase of about 25  percent relative to August 2021).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The administration ’s proposal to measure county performance against baselines using failure-to-prison rates from 2021 through 2023 has a key drawback. Specifically, including 2021 data is problematic because failure-to-prison rates during 2021 were artificially low due to factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than county performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 13, 2025 - After the Great Recession, SSP grants occasionally were increased by applying the CNI only to the SSP portion of the grant (in 2016-17 and 2021-22). Additionally, while not COLAs, SSP grant increases were provided in 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4964

Retail Theft in California: Looking Back at a Decade of Change

Jun 12, 2025 - Subsequently, retail theft rebounded between 2021 and 2023. Over the entire ten ‑year period —2014 to 2023 —reported retail theft increased by about 11  percent, though some counties experienced differing trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5055

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - In 2021 ‑22, Most Direct Contract Providers Shifted to RMR. In 2021 ‑22, the state began funding most direct contract providers based on the RMR —the rate used for voucher ‑based providers —which reflects the 75th percentile of a county ’s market rates for child care identified in the 2018 survey.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - In 2021 ‑22 and 2022 ‑23, the state provided a total of $1.2  billion in one ‑time funding to support TK expansion. These  augmentations include: Facility Support ($590   Million). In 2021 ‑22, the state provided $490  million one ‑time non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund to construct or retrofit early education facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007