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Organization in Sacramento, United States
California’s enacted 2025–26 state budget incorporates almost $175 billion in federal funds that flow through the state budget—about 35.2 percent of the total plan—according to the California Budget &...
The share of California’s personal income tax (PIT) paid by the top 1 percent has swung dramatically over the 2000–2023 period, driven largely by asset-price cycles and temporary rate changes; availab...
’s major criminal‑justice reforms — realignment , , and other sentencing and parole changes — coincided with a large decline in incarceration and a long‑term fall in many crime rates, but researchers ...
California’s political leaders have floated the idea of “withholding” federal tax payments in retaliation for threatened federal cuts, but tax experts and federal officials say the state lacks a clear...
Three principal, publicly accessible data sources underpin most analyses of federal taxes paid and federal spending received by state: the U.S. Treasury’s FiscalData (including the Monthly Treasury St...
California’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) projects a nearly $18 billion budget shortfall for 2026–27 and warns of continuing structural pressures driven by rising Medi‑Cal and other ...