The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - On the one hand, students with higher MCS awards may be more sensitive to the reduction than students with smaller MCS awards. On the other hand, as Figure  6 shows, students with higher awards are likely to be from households with higher incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - On the one hand, allocating more funding now would allow more projects to begin in 2026-27, avoiding the construction cost escalation associated with waiting until a future year. On the other hand, allocating less funding now would leave more available for high-priority projects (including life safety projects) that could emerge over the next year or two.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - On the one hand, this latter approach does not promote as much strategic planning and regional coordination—key components of the SWP program. On the other hand, CCC administrators in these three regions indicate their decentralized approach provides more flexibility for their districts to address local priorities, which can be particularly helpful given their regions are geographically dispersed or have distinct sub‑regional economies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition. Specifically, the administration has higher revenue estimates than our office, but these are mostly offset by their higher spending estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2021-22 Budget: Hastings College of the Law

Feb 22, 2021 - On the one hand, increasing Hastings ’ tuition levels would treat the school more consistently with UC ’s four law schools, which all increased student tuition charges in 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21. All of these schools now have higher resident tuition charges than Hastings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4383

The 2022-23 Budget: Student Housing

Apr 8, 2022 - On the one hand, approving more projects this year would enable campuses to commence with projects sooner, thereby increasing housing stock more quickly and avoiding higher construction costs in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4589

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - The right ‑hand side of Figure  19 shows that wage growth in the state government sector (including UC  Merced) has been strong. Merced County ’s growth in state government wages (69  percent) vastly exceeds the growth at the state level (13  percent) over this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2021-22 Budget: California Institutes for Science and Innovation

Mar 2, 2021 - California Nanosystems Institute b Los Angeles 90 Undergraduate and graduate students from Los Angeles, as well as students from the California State University and other four ‑year institutions in Southern California. 40 undergraduate students would participate in fellowships. 30 undergraduate and graduate students would participate in a new hands ‑on lab training program. 20 undergraduate and graduate students would complete summer capstone projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4394

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major UC Proposals

Feb 2, 2022 - On the other hand, there is some evidence of regional shortages for certain professions (such as for primary care physicians). Beyond workforce considerations, UC campuses also often seek to gro w graduate enrollment proportionate to undergraduate enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4511

The 2023-24 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 23, 2023 - On the other hand, if it decides not to proceed with Cal Grant reform given the state budget condition, then ongoing administrative funding would not be needed. We recommend withhol ding action on administrative funding for CSAC to implement financial aid expansions until later in the budget process, when decisions have been made about which, if any, expansions to pursue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4702