Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - For example, if California had entered the pandemic with equivalently sized reserves, it still would have required a federal loan, but that loan would have reached $9  billion, rather than $20  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - For example, the 2024-25 budget eliminated $9  million in General Fund support for CalVIP beginning in 2025-26 due to the anticipation of GVPSS Fund monies being available to support the program instead.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - Figure  6 shows the amount of credits claimed by recipients over time. The annual amount of credit claims per year has settled in the range of $150  million to $200  million for the last several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

May 12, 2022 - The administration estimates this proposal would have an associated General Fund cost of roughly $9  billion, but the actual cost would depend on what vehicle value threshold is established for providing refunds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4597

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - Across all programs in this agency (including, for example, Medi ‑Cal, In ‑Home Supportive Services, developmental services, and child care), our estimates are $6  billion higher than the administration ’s projection by 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We consider five different specifications of the model for Figures 3 and 7, and four different specifications for Figures 4, 5, and 6. All specifications for the wage gaps between specific demographic groups include the indicators for those demographic groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  6, the 2024 statewide minimum wage is noticeably below half of the 2022-2023 full-time median wage. By this measure, the state ’s minimum wage is around where it was one decade ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

The 2022-23 Budget: Federal Tax Conformity for Federal Business Assistance

Jan 26, 2022 - As of January 9, 2022, about 85 percent of the PPP loans nationwide have been forgiven. Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF). The RRF program was created in March 2021 to make grants to eligible restaurants, caterers, and bars that experienced a decline in revenue during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4501

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - The current debt ‑service ratio of 4. 1  p ercent in 2020 ‑ 21 i s somewhat below the historical average of 4. 9  p ercent in the ten prior years, and well below the peak of 6  p ercent in 2009 ‑10. Does the Proposal Have Other Strong Policy Justifications?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331