California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Racial/Ethnic Distribution Roughly Similar for Men and Women. Figure  2 shows that Latino and white low-wage workers are roughly half men and half women. The estimates suggest that women likely make up substantial majorities of Black and Asian/Pacific Islander low-wage workers, though these comparisons are less precise due to the smaller sizes of these groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

COVID-19: American Rescue Plan’s Major Health-Related Funding Provisions

May 6, 2021 - New State Option to Extend Medicaid Coverage for Postpartum Women Current Federal and State Medicaid Policy on Coverage for Postpartum Women. As authorized by federal law, Medi-Cal currently provides time-limited coverage to pregnant women who do not meet all standard Medi-Cal eligibility rules, such as those with incomes above 138  percent of the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4425

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Unit 6 (Corrections)

Sep 7, 2023 - Since 2003, the share of Unit  6 members who are women has steadily declined. Specifically, whereas 21  percent of Unit  6 members were women in 2003, 17  percent of Unit  6 members were women in 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4800

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - Increases Benefits for Pregnant Women Receiving CalWORKs. Under prior state law, pregnant women who otherwise qualify for CalWORKs could receive a monthly supplemental aid payment of $47 beginning in their second trimester.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/2

The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - Increasing the additional monthly stipend provided to pregnant women on CalWORKs from $47 to $100, and allowing women to become immediately eligible upon verification of their pregnancies (as opposed to waiting until the second trimester).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook Executive Summary Not Safe to Bet Artificial Intelligence ( AI) Fueled Exuberance Is Sustainable. Both the California and U.S. economies currently face significant headwinds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - The department also maintains 85 beds for women and people sentenced to death in state prisons that can be operated as either ICF or APP beds. Additionally, there are 30 beds in state hospitals that CDCR can refer women to.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Online sports wagering. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2021 - This tax is applied to the amount a person bets. Additionally, the measure authorizes DOSBC to take va rious enforcement actions, including requiring people making such bets to register with DOSBC, requiring entities illegally offering online sports wagering to disclose the names of people who make wagers with them, and blocking access to illegal sites accepting sports wagers.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-017

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - Specifically, certain classifications are more or less likely to be filled by men or women. For example, in 2021, 75  percent of the 31,347  sstate jobs that were considered to be office and administrative support occupations were filled by women while 86  percent of the 43,980 state jobs that were considered to be protective service occupations were filled by men.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Increased the additional monthly stipend provided to pregnant women on CalWORKs from $47 to $100, and also allowed women to become immediately eligible upon verification of their pregnancies (as opposed to waiting until the second trimester).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530