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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Whether the worker graduated from high school. Whether the worker lives in Los Angeles County. Whether the worker belongs to a union. Whether the worker works in the manufacturing industry. Whether the worker holds multiple jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Fair market rent is the 40 th percentile of the rent distribution for a given apartment type (such as studios or two-bedrooms). We make these comparisons for seven different types of households, matching each household type to an apartment type that is modest but sufficient to avoid overcrowding (see the Appendix for details).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Over the last decade, two statutes —Chapter  351 of 2013 (AB  10, Alejo) and Chapter  4 of 2016 (SB  3, Leno) —gradually have increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As workers age from their 20s to their early 30s, many of them move from low-wage jobs to mid-to-high-wage jobs. Mobility out of low-wage work, however, slows down dramatica lly when workers are in their early 30s.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - Most of these gains come from the meteoric rise in the value of a handful of tech companies that investors believe will be major beneficiaries of recent advances in AI. These companies have made big bets on AI, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers and offering extraordinary pay packages to recruit AI researchers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091

An Update on California Competes [EconTax Blog]

Mar 10, 2023 - While many of these bets do not pan out, the ones that do can be successful enough to yield overall benefits for the state. Thi s dynamic is not necessarily problematic given that the state recaptures credits from unsuccessful agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/771

Increasing Oversight of the State Litigation Deposit Fund

Jan 28, 2021 - It would also help the Legislature monitor the types and number of cases being pursued and the level of state benefit achieved from these legal actions. The Legislature would also have the ability to use this information to inform budgetary decisions and to determine whether additional changes to state law are necessary to improve the effective use of litigation proceeds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4322

Online sports wagering. [Ballot]

Oct 20, 2021 - This includes developing regulations and licensing requirements, authorizing the list of events and bet types eligible for online sports wagering, and investigating abnormal wa gering activity (such as the “fixing ” of games).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-017

Tribal gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 27, 2021 - The specific levels of authority that DOJ and CGCC would have over each tribe w ould depend on the type of authorization the tribe received. For those under the state law framework, the measure authorizes CGCC to develop and implement various regulations —such as the types of bets that can be offered, licensing requirements, and consumer protection requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-039