The 2023-24 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 22, 2023 - As shown in Figure  2, the Governor ’s budget proposes $7.3  billion in total funding for the CalWORKs program in 2022-23, a net increase of $108  million (1  percent) relative to the most recent estimate of current-year spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4699

Cal Facts 2006 State Economy

Net foreign in-migration currently totals around 200,000 persons annually. This represents roughly 40 percent of California’s annual population growth. Acknowledgments The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) is a nonpartisan office which provides fiscal and policy information and advice to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/cal_facts/2006_calfacts_econ.htm

Evaluating California's Pursuit of Zero Net Energy State Buildings

Nov 14, 2017 - Some of these resulting projects could be ZNE, while others might simply be low net energy use. Regardless of whether these buildings are ZNE or low net energy use, by taking into account a higher cost of GHG emissions, they will likely result in fewer emissions than traditional buildings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3711

Comparing CalWORKs Take-Up Rates Across Demographic Groups

Feb 14, 2023 - This is the second in a series of analyses estimating the percentage of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)-eligible individuals who actually enroll in the program—otherwise known as the CalWORKs take-up rate. In this analysis, we compare CalWORKs eligibility and take-up rates across various demographic and economic groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4678

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Governor’s CalWORKs Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - As  shown in Figure  2 , the Governor ’s budget proposes $6.9  billion in total funding for the CalWORKs program in 2022 ‑23, a net increase of $291  million (4  percent) relative to the most recent estimate of current ‑year spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4530

Estimating the CalWORKs Take-Up Rate

Feb 2, 2021 - This is the first in a series of several posts estimating the percentage of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)-eligible individuals who actually enroll in the program—otherwise known as the CalWORKs take-up rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4340

April 2014 collections are projected to fall from last year's lofty totals.

Apr 14, 2014 - Is It Easy to Discern Key Trends from the Daily Totals? Our office has tracked daily revenue totals for many years —long before the web made it easy to disseminate this data widely.  Based on this experience, we observe that it is sometimes difficult to discern  key revenue  trends from the daily data —at least until near the end of the month.
https://lao.ca.gov/Recommendations/Details/804

1998 Cal Facts California's Economy

Asia Accounts for Large Portion Of California's Exports 1997 One of the major risks to California's economic outlook involves the impact of Asia's financial and economic problems. Problems in Asia are of particular importance to California since nearly one-half of California's exports are to Japan and other Asian countries (primarily those on the Pacific Rim ).
https://lao.ca.gov/1998/1998_calfacts/98calfacts_economy.html

What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: An Overview [Video]

Determining which state requirements must be reimbursed —and which local governments must pay for on their own —is not always easy. To help explain these issues, we prepared two narrated presentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=43

Sales Tax Exemption for Bunker Fuel

Nov 19, 2025 - In the same month, the average prices per metric ton of marine gas oil in the Americas and in the Asia-Pacific region were $837 and $786, respectively. Maritime Fuel Deliveries. To estimate California deliveries of residual fuel oil (a major type of maritime fuel), we combine data from a couple of sources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5094