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

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  2, the share of low-wage workers who are immigrants varies substantially by race/ethnicity. Half of Latino low-wage workers are immigrants. Most white and Black low-wage workers were born in the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - Substantial Rebates in Many Counties … As shown in Figure  2, 2023-24 rebate payments varied across counties. In nine counties, rebates exceeded $5 per resident. In seven others, rebates ranged from $1 to $5 per resident.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - That said, the overall labor force participation rate changes very little from age 25 to 40. This suggests that many low-wage workers in their late 30s likely have worked for many years with little upward mobility in their wages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - This is slightly below an estimate by Blau et al. (2023) for the U.S. over the last 40 years and substantially higher than an estimate by Clemens et al. (2019) for the U.S. over the period from 2013 to 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

The 2023-24 Budget: Multiyear Budget Outlook

May 23, 2023 - Both of these figures are attributable to growth in revenue and the Proposition  98 formula that reserves a minimum percentage of that revenue (just under 40  percent) for school and community college programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4772

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - According to federal program reporting, each year about 40  percent of unemployed workers in California receive unemployment insurance (this is the state ’s take ‑up rate among all unemployed workers).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We consider roughly 40 different probit specifications. We assess the pseudo-out-of-sample prediction errors for each specification using the monthly CPS from January to December 2022 as our training set and the monthly CPS from January to December 2023 as our test set.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

The 2022-23 Budget: Fuel Tax Rates

Feb 11, 2022 - Roughly 60  percent remains at the state level to support state highway maintenance and rehabilitation, and 40  percent goes to local governments. The 2021 federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will provide at least an additional $2  billion per year over five years for state and local transportation projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4528

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - All three of these changes could have contributed to the trend shown in Figure  2 if (1)  The 25  percent rule was favoring smaller businesses above better-qualified applicants from larger firms, (2)  larger businesses provide better evidence on how the credit affects their decision-making, and (3)  larger firms are more likely to have, or participate in, job training programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162