The 2024-25 Budget: Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Feb 20, 2024 - We estimate the Governor ’s budget predicts the state ’s 2024-25 budget will need to address a $58 billion deficit . In December, our office predicted a somewhat large deficit of $68 billion . Since then, recent data has continued to point to the budget problem being larger than the Governor’s budget assumes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4846

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - It is comfortably within the range of minimum wage increases in the U.S. over the last four decades —closer to the bottom of that range than the top. Coming Into 2024, Roughly 10  Percent of Workers Made $16 Per Hour or Less.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The main exception is that high wages are top-coded: all wages above a certain amount are assigned the same value. In high-wage states like California, top-coding seriously hinders analyses that consider the upper portion of the wage distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - States at the top of the distribution include other Western states: Washington ($67,600), Hawaii ($56,700), Oregon ($50,900), and Alaska ($47,100). Substantially raising the state ’s taxable wage base would: (1)  improve solvency and (2)  mitigate the disincentive for businesses to hire low wage workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Recent Actions Suggest Getting Payments to Workers Is Not a Top Priority In addition to longstanding policies and procedures that make it difficult for eligible workers to get benefits, recent actions during the pandemic also suggest that getting payments to eligible workers is not a top priority for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jul 1, 2021 - The top panel of the figure summarizes the total weight of donations whose weights were specified in the Metrc data. The bottom panel summarizes the number of donated packages whose weights were not specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4447

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

Feb 11, 2022 - Consequently, Visit California has increased its net assets from $20  million at the beginning of 2019 ‑20 to $58  million by the end of 2021 ‑22. Additional State Funding for Marketing Appears Unnecessary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4529

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - Filers who pay a top rate below 13. 3   p ercent will see a small net increase in state taxes, which in most cases would be more than offset by a decline in federal taxes. Benefits Would Be Concentrated Among Small Number of High ‑Income Filers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327