The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Required applicants to demonstrate that receiving the credit would influence their decision to create jobs in California. Allowed GO-Biz to consider job training opportunities as a factor when awarding credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Funding another round of California Competes grants could create jobs at a time when private sector job growth has been sluggish. However, we suggest weighing the expansion of these economic development efforts against other budget priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Of course, some workers at these ages presumably move from low-wage jobs to mid-to-high-wage jobs, but such movement does not appear to be much larger than movemen t in the opposite direction. Substantial Share of Workers in Their Late Thirties Are in Low-Wage Jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Whether the worker holds multiple jobs. The worker ’s gender. The worker ’s race/ethnicity. Using the Model to Estimate Percentiles. We consider five different specifications of the model for Figures 3 and 7, and four different specifications for Figures 4, 5, and 6.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The first part of this report describes low-wage workers' occupations, genders, races/ethnicities, birthplaces, household structures, educational attainment, and weekly hours. The second part focuses on low-wage workers' ages. The third part compares the statewide minimum wage to various benchmarks to assess whether it is high, low, or somewhere in between.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  5, roughly half of low-wage workers work at least 40 hours per week at their primary jobs. (In the CPS, roughly 4  percent of California ’s low-wage workers indicate that they hold multiple jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs. ” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134(3). Clemens, Austin, Kavya Vaghul, John Schmitt, and Will McGrew (2019). “Interactive: Comparing Wages Within and Across Demographic Groups in the United States. ” Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Common reasons a worker would not meet the available requirement include (1)  caring for a child at home, (2)  not having legal work status, (3)  seeking part ‑time work when the prior job was full time, (4)  not commuting longer distances for a new job, and (5)  using the period of unemployment to change careers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - Second, since the pandemic, the department has struggled to fill jobs that require workers to perform enforcement actions in person. Licensing Inspections and Citations Have Declined. Over the last few years, two key measures of the licensing program ’s enforcement activities have declined.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - The state ’s UI program is a state ‑federal partnership under which workers receive partial wage replacement if they lose their job through no fault of their own. Employers pay a payroll tax on each worker to fund benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943