State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - We define a zip code as “higher representation ” of a specific race or ethnicity if the zip code is above the 90th percentile among all other zip codes in terms of its percentage of that race or ethnicity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Impact on Local Property Tax Revenues [EconTax Blog]

Feb 10, 2025 - The Governor ’s executive order –which applies to properties in 18 Los Angeles area zip codes –allows property owners to delay all property tax payments until April 10, 2026 without penalty. We estimate that this executive order affects 218,000 parcels with over $200 billion in assessed value.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/819

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - This trend has been especially pronounced for men, Native American and Black Californians, and residents of rural northern counties and the state ’s lowest ‑income zip codes. This report presents information about some potential explanations for these trends, but developing a full understanding of its origins will require substantial additional research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - In some other cases, counties identified communities by geography, such as those living in certain zip codes with higher rates of foster care entry or those in more remote areas of the county who historically have had lower levels of access to services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 11, 2021 - The budget also provides ongoing funds for the Zip Books and Lunch at the Library programs —two local library programs that had previously received one-time state funding. (Funding for the Lunch at the Library program was made ongoing beginning in 2020 ‑21 as part of the early action package.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4461

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091