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

Mar 18, 2025 - In July 2024, Natcast and the Department of Commerce officially launched a site selection process for three flagship R &D facilities. Through this process, they discussed prospective sites with economic development organizations, such as the GO-Biz in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Official Poverty Measure Paints an Incomplete Picture. Although the official poverty measure is a prominent benchmark, it has some significant limitations. The measure does not, for example, provide a concrete comparison between household incomes and specific types of expenses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - Federal officials recommend targeting a reserve amount equal to the average of the three highest benefit cost years over the past two decades. In our recommended approach, we again use the “average number of weeks of UI benefits paid to covered employees ” calculation described earlier.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Basic Setup for CPS Analyses Strategy for Unit Nonresponse: Official Survey Weights. To address unit nonresponse, we use the earnings weights calculated by the Census Bureau. This approach is widespread, but it has some key limitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Proposed Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion

Mar 6, 2019 - Here, we refer to the official poverty measure as opposed to the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) which accounts for differences in living costs and for the effects of other means ‑tested programs such as California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) and CalFresh.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3960

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - Next, regional councils of governments (regional planning organizations governed by elected officials from the region ’s cities and counties) allocate a share of their region ’s projected housing need to each city and county.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3605

Understanding Proposition 218 [Publication Details]

Dec 17, 1996 - The purpose of this guide is to help the Legislature, local officials, and other parties understand Proposition 218, including the actions local governments must take to implement it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/658

Managing California’s Cash

Sep 3, 2019 - In 1994, the Legislature helped state officials sell a series of RAWs to investors by agreeing in law to automatically reduce most categories of expenditures if cash flow projections showed that timely payment of RAWs was threatened.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4092

The 2020-21 Budget: Taxation of E-Cigarettes

Feb 24, 2020 - The Governor ’s official January proposals include $ 17  m illion of expenditures from the new fund. Including the additional administrative costs described below, we expect the administration ’s overall 2020 ‑ 21 e xpenditure plan for e ‑cigarette tax revenues to total roughly $ 24  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4171