The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - In particular, we offer background information; comments on revenue trends, CDTFA ’s enforcement activities, and the AB  3218 budget change proposal (BCP); and questions that budget subcommittees may wish to ask about these issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

Evaluating State Economic Stimulus Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - Given the challenges of quantifying economic benefits, we recommend asking six key questions, summarized in Figure  2 , to make a more complete assessment of the merits of economic stimulus proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4331

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Asking workers to list out prior wages that the state already maintains serves little purpose and has the effect of lengthening the UI ap
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The survey asks these rotation groups about the hourly wage or usual weekly earnings (along with usual weekly hours) for each worker in the respondent ’s household. For our analysis, key strengths of the CPS include: Individual-level microdata are publicly available, enabling a high degree of customization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4