California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Many workers are still in low-wage jobs as they approach middle age. When a cohort of workers reaches their late thirties, their rate of low-wage work has declined by less than half since they were 25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Although we assume that this does not apply to continuous variables, such as age, it still seriously limits the number of explanatory variables that we can include in addition to the two described above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - This wage gap is smaller than national estimates, though still substantial. Like the broad wage gap discussed above, the gender wage gap among California ’s low-wage workers does not appear to have changed much over the last couple of decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage [Publication Details]

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/Detail/4878

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 - 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/4878/1

The 2022-23 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - The Inclusive Innovation Hub program is still being established. No specific information is available about the program ’s outcomes or needs because it is still being implemented. GO ‑Biz previously requested and received one ‑time funding of $250,000 per hub to establish the new program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4529

The 2020-21 May Revision: Revenue Proposals in the 2020-21 May Revision

May 20, 2020 - Under the proposal, the price used to calculate the use tax would be the higher of: (1)  the reported sale price or (2)  80  percent of the estimated market value of the vehicle. Vehicle buyers could pay use tax on sale prices lower than 80  percent of the estimated market value only if they provide DMV with a certified appraisal valuing the vehicle at the lower amount within 20 days of purchase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4238

The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - If Protecting Market Share a Priority, Use of Benchmarks Would Help Improve Fiscal Oversight of Credit. If the Legislature elects to expand the credit, utilizing explicit benchmarks that compare the desired market share to the state ’s current position would help improve fiscal oversight of the credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5000

Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - While it faces some risk from future publication decisions, these risks are similar to the risk for options A and B, which still require metropolitan area statistics on prices for specific spending categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065