The 2022-23 Budget: Assessing Proposals to Address Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Feb 15, 2022 - According to Strike Team, Focus on Fraud Provided Little Benefit and Led to Backlog. The  state ’s longstanding institutional focus on fraud led staff to manually scrutinize roughly 40  percent of all UI applicants ’ identity information.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4542

Refocusing the Workers’ Compensation Subsequent Injury Program

Jul 10, 2025 - Workers with more serious conditions would meet this higher standard —for instance, a previous workplace back injury that led to surgery, a severe congenital condition, or a partial limb amputation. In most cases, common, chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, early diabetes, or age ‑related degenerative changes would not meet this threshold.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5062

The 2021-22 May Revision: Golden State Stimulus 2

May 18, 2021 - The pandemic has led to devastating job losses, which have been concentrated among California ’s low-wage workers. As of March  2021, more than 80  percent of unemployed workers live in households with below-average annual income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4435

MOU Fiscal Analysis: Bargaining Units 10 (Professional Scientists) and 18 (Psychiatric Technician)

Sep 9, 2025 - This disagreement has led to challenging labor relations between the state and state scientists for more than a decade. We discuss these challenges in our 2024 analysis of the most recently ratified Unit 10 MOU.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5073

The 2024-25 Budget: State Employee Compensation

Mar 21, 2024 - We think there is merit in an exercise led by the Department of Finance (DOF) to identify inefficiencies in the state budget; however, we do not think that the proposed reduction will achieve the level of savings assumed in the budget for 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4888

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Proposal Seems Reasonable to Address Current Issues Leading to Increased Wait Times for Commercial Drive Tests … We find that the proposal is a reasonable approach to addressing the two primary factors that have led to increased wait times.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For  example, in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, a recent study led by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission estimated that with an anticipated four feet of flooding in the region from sea‑level rise over the next 40 to 100 years, 13,000 existing housing units and 104,000 existing job spaces will no longer be usable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575