Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - In 2021, the most recent year for which we have injury data, we estimate that 3,500 workers suffered workplace injuries of this severity. Coincidentally, roughly the same number of workers have filed SIBTF claims annually in recent years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 9 (Professional Engineers)

Jun 27, 2025 - Since October 2021, Unit 9 members have been eligible to receive a monthly telework stipend. Employees who are identified as being “remote centered ” are eligible to receive $50 per month. Employees who are identified as “office centered ” are eligible to receive $25 per month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5061

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

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Jun 23, 2025 - We raised concerns in 2019 that CalHR withheld (and continues to withhold) a compensation study it completed in 2018 (see our June 2019 analysis ) and proceeded to not produce compensation studies in 2019, 2020, or 2021 despite new agreements being submitted to the Legislature in those years (see our June 2021 analysis ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5058

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

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: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - The compensation reductions established under these agreements were in effect through 2020-21 and were restored through agreements in 2021-22. Bargaining Concessions Lead to Offsetting Costs Down the Road.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

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

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program [Publication Details]

May 1, 2025 - Chapter 114 of 2021 (SB 144, Portantino) required our office to issue a report summarizing the workforce diversity information collected by the California Film Commission (CFC) and evaluate the effectiveness of the tax credit for increasing diversity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5036