State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - Research nationally and in other states has found consistent evidence of racial disparities in the distribution of PPP loans, particularly for Black ‑owned businesses. These findings include, for example, that Black ‑owned firms were about 9  percent less likely to receive PPP loans than similar white ‑owned firms and, among
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Comparing Figure  1 with the 2023 data in Figure  3, white, Black, and Multiple/Other individuals are overrepresented among credit recipients relative to their California population share, while Hispanic/Latino and Asian individuals are  underrepresented.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

Juvenile Crime--Who Is Being Victimized by Crime?

Teenage black males have the highest victimization rates for violent crime (about 20 percent higher than teenage black females, the next highest group). Teenage white and black males have the highest victimization rates for personal theft.
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/050195_juv_crime/kkpart4.aspx

Child Abuse and Neglect in California - Part III

Percent of Ethnic Group Population in Foster Care June 1995 In June 1995, 37 percent of the foster care population was black, 36 percent was white, and 25 percent was Hispanic. (Not shown in chart.) The number of black children in foster care represented about 4.8 percent of the total population of black children in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/1996/010596_child_abuse/cw11096c.html

^[PDF] Update: Racial and Ethnic Disproportionalities and Disparities in California’s Child Welfare System

Racial/Ethnic Disproportionalities of Entries Into Foster Care Over Time Proportion of Foster Care Entries Divided by Proportion of Child Population 0.5 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 Black Chief Dep.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2024/Child-Welfare-Disparities-040324.pdf

^[PDF] What Is the Variation in Racial and Ethnic Group Participation At California Public Colleges and Universities?

The reverse is true for Asian students.  But looking beyond high school graduates reveals a different story.  Although black and Latino high school graduates enroll in college at a greater rate than white graduates, the black and Latino populations as a whole have lower college participation rates than whites.
https://lao.ca.gov/sections/higher_ed/FAQs/Higher_Education_Issue_16.pdf

ADULT POPULATIONS

Although the state's male populati on is more than 50 percent white, the prison population is about 28 percent white and the Youth Authority population is only about 15 percent white. And although black males are on ly about 7 percent of the state's male population, they comprise about one-third of the populations of both the prison system and the Youth Authority.
https://lao.ca.gov/1995/010195_calguide/cgcj3.html

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The number of low-wage workers who are Latino is roughly two and a half times the number who are white, four and a half times the number who are Asian/Pacific Islander, and 18 times the number who are Black.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - Census and in state data sources, namely: white, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native (or Native American), Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino, and other.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - Race/Ethnicity Most CalWORKs Heads of Household Were Hispanic, White, or Black. As shown in Figure   12 , about half of CalWORKs heads of household were Hispanic in 2022. About 22  percent were white and 20  percent were Black.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057