California New Car Registrations: March 2025 [EconTax Blog]

May 9, 2025 - For example, although registrations in March 2025 were strong compared to the last couple years, they remained 4.5 percent lower than in March 2019.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/828

California New Car Registrations: March 2025 [EconTax Blog]

May 9, 2025 - For example, although registrations in March 2025 were strong compared to the last couple years, they remained 4.5 percent lower than in March 2019.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/828

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019. Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2025-26 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 19, 2025 - CalFresh/CFAP caseload (as of November 2024) increased 60  percent since the beginning of 2019-20, although annual rates of growth have varied from year to year. Multiple factors likely contributed to this growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4971

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - The state created the CalKIDS program in the 2019-20 budget package. Under the program, SIB opens college savings accounts and makes deposits for eligible children (discussed in more detail below). The deposits are invested so they have the potential to grow over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - As shown in Figure  21 , citations issued by CHP for driving over 100 miles per hour nearly doubled between 2019 and 2020. CHP citations for driving over 100 miles per hour declined a bit after 2020, but the number of such citations was still 29  percent higher in 2023 than in  2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Justice

Feb 19, 2025 - DROS Special Account expenditures routinely exceeded revenues prior to 2019 ‑ 20 —resulting in the decline of the fund balance. To  help ensure sufficient revenues would be available to support BOF workload, Chapter  736 of 2019 (A B  1669 , Bonta) enabled DOJ to increase the DROS fee charged from $19 to $31.19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4972

The 2025-26 Budget: Single Sales Factor for Financial Institutions [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - Giroud, Xavier and Joshua Rauh (2019). State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data. Journal of Political Economy 2019 127:3, 1262-1316. Goolsbee, Austan and Edward L.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/821

The 2025-26 Budget: Single Sales Factor for Financial Institutions [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - Giroud, Xavier and Joshua Rauh (2019). State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data. Journal of Political Economy 2019 127:3, 1262-1316. Goolsbee, Austan and Edward L.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/821

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - Assessment Proposed Project Generally Reasonable … The selection of the new Tracy courthouse is generally reasonable as it is the next project in line to be funded when following the judicial branch ’s 2019 ranked list of facility project needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959