The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - Under prior law, CFAP provides state-funded nutrition benefits to low-income legal permanent residents who have resided in the U.S. for less than five years. (These individuals would otherwise be eligible for CalFresh benefits, but were rendered ineligible by a federal welfare reform bill passed in 1996.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640/3

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services [Publication Details]

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4640

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 21, 2022 - The 2022-23 spending plan provides over $25 billion from the General Fund for human services programs. This is an increase of over $4 billion, or 19 percent, compared to the revised, prior-year spending level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - School Behavioral Health Counselors and Coaches 338.0 (across five years) As part of broader Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, provide grants to a variety of entities to increase number of behavioral health counselors, coaches, and peer support specialists in schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

K-12 Funding by Source [EdBudget]

Aug 14, 2023 - K-12 Funding by Source [EdBudget]     a Consists primarily of state pension payments on behalf of districts, state debt service on school facility bonds, and non-Proposition 98 funding for the California State Preschool Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/781

Promoting Equity in the Parole Hearing Process

Jan 5, 2023 - These people generally become eligible for parole hearings after serving 25  years in prison. These parole hearings are called youth offender hearings and can lessen the sentences of people who committed crimes while, according to research, their brains were still developing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4658

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - The administration notified the JLBC of two DREOA of transfers related to COVID-19: $1.3  billion on March  25 and $1.8  billion on May 21. These funds are now available for emergency response activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

Income Tax Withholding Tracker: 3/23 to 3/27 [EconTax Blog]

Mar 27, 2020 - The first graph compares withholding payments received this week to payments received in the comparable week in 2019, which ran from Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29 of that year. In contrast to last week, withholding this week was noticeably affected by the outbreak, as payments this week were down 15 percent compared to the same week a year ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/446

The 2020-21 Budget: Immigrant Legal Services at the Public Higher Education Segments

May 21, 2020 - This is because UC has its own center —the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center (operating out of the UC Davis law school) —that provides immigrant legal services to students at nine of UC ’s ten campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4239

The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Among the most notable changes made to CalWORKs in the past three budgets were: Providing a temporary 10  percent grant increase funded by General Fund and extending from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699