The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Facilities. The budget provides a net increase of $23  million one-time General Fund for the construction phase of the Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Site project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - To summarize, in Figure  3 , we provide relative assessments of each option using our criteria, dividing them into “green ” for the best measures on each criterion, “yellow ” for measures where some deficiency is identified, and “red ” for measures we judge to be significantly deficient.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - (The small red area of the figure represents this smaller fraud estimate.) EDD Puts Significant Focus on Fraud Prevention. Due to a concern that workers may lie to get UI payments, EDD ’s practices have evolved over time to meticulously scrutinize worker eligibility.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615