California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Disproportionate Exposure to Risk Factors Some Groups More Likely to Be in Low ‑Income Families and Experience Broader Risk Factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Taken Together, These Cost Drivers Account for Much of the Growth Overall, IHSS Cost Growth Can Be Attributed to Three Main Factors. IHSS costs can be largely attributed to three primary factors: caseload, cost per hour, and hours per case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - In general, payment errors are caused by many factors. Rules for determining CalFresh eligibility and calculating benefit amounts are comp lex. CalFresh recipients sometimes provide incomplete or inaccurate information needed to correctly calculate benefits, often unintentionally.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - In reality, the amount of such bonds (and thus 4  percent tax credits) needed for HDFC projects will be dependent on several factors —some which cannot be anticipated at this time —and could vary widely.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - However, the reality is more complicated, with many factors that contribute to families ’ risk for child maltreatment —such as poverty —existing far outside of local child welfare agencies ’ control.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - The CalWORKs limit only factors in months an individual has received CalWORKs assistance, while the federal limit factors in months the individual previously received TANF assistance in another state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Moves Financial Institutions to Single Sales Factor Apportionment. Multistate and multinational corporations have their California tax liability calculated using a process known as apportionment. Most firms use the Single Sales Factor method, which calculates the percentage of a firm ’s sales that occur in California, and then subjects that percentage of the firm ’s profits to California taxation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality

Dec 10, 2024 - After every fatal crash, law enforcement agencies determine which type of traffic violation was the “primary collision factor ” leading to the crash. As noted above, many factors can contribute to crashes, some of which fit neatly into this framework and some of which do not.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4945

The 2025-26 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 6, 2025 - However, we believe that the asset limit repeal —along with other noted Medi-Cal expansions —are contributing factors to this caseload growth. Update on Permanent Backup Provider System Permanent Backup Provider System Established in 2022-23 Budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5009

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723