The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

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Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - In prioritizing getting payments to eligible workers, these changes also would help bolster the state economy during downturns, by distributing economic support broadly and quickly to lessen the economic impact of job losses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - The amount of time will depend on both how quickly the program can be implemented as well as how quickly the new initial economic activity circulates throughout the economy. For example, a completely new program may take several years to be implemented fully.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331

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

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The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Price and Other Fiscal Relief Options

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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

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - In September 2020, the Legislature created the Main Street Credit, which provides income or sales tax credits to eligible small businesses that added jobs in the second half of 2020. Each eligible business receives a credit of $1,000 for each new job.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - As  shown in Figure  4 , the state began this period in Schedule C but quickly moved to Schedule F+, the highest tax schedule, where it has remained since. Tax System Had No Room to Work in the Great Recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

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 - 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.
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