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 - A good example of this is the Black population in California. Based on the figures presented above, the Black population is somewhat overrepresented in California ’s motion picture industry (6.6  percent) compared to their share of the total population (5.5  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

California’s Child Welfare System: Addressing Disproportionalities and Disparities

Apr 24, 2024 - In California, Black, Native American, and Hispanic/Latino children are more likely than children of other races/ethnicities to experience this more extreme level of deprivation. For example, in 2021, Black children were roughly three times more likely than white children to experience deep poverty (16  percent compared to 5  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4897

The 2021-22 Budget: LAO Preliminary Comments on the May Revision Medi-Cal Budget

May 21, 2021 - These include ( 1)  w hether the proposal reflects an information technology (IT) project subject to the state ’s IT project oversight rules, ( 2)  w hat the full intended scope of functionality for the project would be (for example, how the service might interface with related state efforts to expand the use of health information exchanges), ( 3)  w
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4436

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

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Social Services Immigration and Equity Programs

Mar 15, 2024 - Despite this reduction, it is our understanding that core immigration services across the state, including those for Black and AAPI immigrants which were previously supported by TPS funding, will continue to be supported through the base ISF program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Without required reporting on how much campuses are spending on particular GI 2025 activities and how many and which students are using them, the Legislature cannot know which activities are most cost ‑effective.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2023-24 Budget: Analysis of Child Welfare Proposals and Implementation Updates

Feb 22, 2023 - In California, Black and Native American youth in particular are overrepresented in the foster care system relative to their respective shares of the state ’s youth population. As illustrated in Figure  2 , the proportion of Black and Native American youth in foster care is around four times larger than their proportion of the population in California overall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4698

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The estimates in the first section come from the 2023 Occupational Employment and Wage Survey (OEWS), which collected information about employment and wages in May 2022 and used an employment cost index to update wage estimates to the first quarter of 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - For example, a number of California counties have “cultural broker ” programs, which are community ‑led initiatives that work with Black families who have an open child welfare case (or are at risk of child welfare system intervention).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106