The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs [Publication Details]

Feb 16, 2024 - This post provides background and caseload trend updates for the state’s major food assistance programs--CalFresh and the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP)--and analyzes the Governor’s proposed food assistance budget, which includes no major new proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4845

The 2024-25 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 16, 2024 - The federal government helps manage an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system which deposits monthly benefits for CalFresh and other human services pr ograms onto cards to be used at grocery and convenience store checkout counters.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4845

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - This report examines disproportionalities and disparities across California’s child welfare system in terms of income and race/ethnicity. The report provides background on the child welfare system, describes child welfare system disproportionalities and disparities, and lays out potential drivers of these inequities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - For example, the 2022 ‑23 budget package included $150  million one ‑time General Fund —referred to as the 2022 ‑23  backfill set aside —that the State Controller ’s Office could transfer to Proposition  64 programs in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893