Net Taxpayer Outmigration Increased During 2017-2019 [EconTax Blog]

Jul 6, 2021 - The left column shows absolute numbers of migrants, with the darkest shade of red indicating a net outflow of more than 10,000 people. The right column shows migration as a share of the previous year ’s filers, with the darkest shade of green indicating a net inflow of more than 1 percent of the previous year ’s population, and the darkest shade of red indicating a net outflow of more than 0.75 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/675

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Assessment

Feb 15, 2023 - Three of those —the recession in the early 1990s, the dot ‑com bust in the early 2000s, and the Great Recession —resulted in large revenue shortfalls and ensuing multiyear deficits, even for some years after each recession ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4687

Oversight of certain nonprofit charities and related entities. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - This includes the specific activities the new board chooses to engage in, what activities cove red entities choose to engage in (such as how often they make large asset transfers), and how often members of the public file cases in court.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-032

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Transportation

Sep 10, 2024 - Specifically, the budget shifts $13.1  million from the General Fund to lease revenue bonds for the performance criteria phase of six area office projects including Antelope, Barstow, Gold Run, Los Banos, Porterville, and Redding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4925

Updating the California Necessities Index

Aug 14, 2025 - To summarize, in Figure  3 , we provide relative assessments of each option using our criteria, dividing them into “green ” for the best measures on each criterion, “yellow ” for measures where some deficiency is identified, and “red ” for measures we judge to be significantly deficient.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5065

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Facilities. The budget provides a net increase of $23  million one-time General Fund for the construction phase of the Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Site project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2023-24 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of CalFire’s Emergency Fire Protection Budget

May 1, 2023 - Prepositioning is typically thought of as the temporary staging of resources —such as fire engines and crews —for a short period in advance of a high ‑risk event (such as when there is a red flag warning).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4765