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State Leaders Need to Provide Significant Relief. Here’s How.

The 2022-23 state budget is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for state leaders to provide significant relief for Californians

California Budget

Understanding the Governor’s 2022-23 May Revision

Amid Unprecedented Increases in Revenues, Governor’s Proposal Steers Off Course in Providing Relief to Californians Struggling to Make Ends M

California Budget

Corporations Pay Far Less of Their California Income in State Taxes than a Generation Ago

Calling California home means sharing in the responsibility of creating strong communities. Yet, corporations are contributing roughly half as much of their California profits in state taxes than four decades ago. In the early 1980s, corporations that reported profits in California paid more than 9.5% of this income in state corporation taxes. In contrast, corporations …

Taxes & Revenue

California Loses Nearly $70 Billion Annually Through Tax Breaks

California will lose an estimated $69.2 billion in state General Fund revenues in 2021-22 to personal and corporate income tax breaks — or “tax expenditures.” Many of the state’s largest tax breaks primarily benefit higher-income households and businesses, while just a fraction of the state’s tax …

Taxes & Revenue

Tax and Revenue Policy Glossary

What’s the difference between income and wealth? Taxes for individuals and corporations in California? Tax credits and deductions? Understanding these key terms is critical to navigating the state budget and its intersection with California’s tax and revenue system to generate ongoing resources and provide quality education, affordable health care, child care, housing, and other services …

Taxes & Revenue

We have the tools to help Californians. Why are policymakers ignoring them?

To have the greatest impact, state relief should focus on helping Californians with low incomes

California Budget

Poverty & Inequality

Lowest-Income Californians Lose as Federal Child Tax Credit Expansion Ends

Nearly 1.7 million California children are at risk of falling back into poverty or deeper intopoverty this year because federal policymakers failed to extend the expanded federal Child TaxCredit (CTC). Researchers already estimate that 3.7 million children nationwide fell into povertyin January 2022. Families with children will lose thousands of dollars they need for food, …

Poverty & Inequality

Implementing Guaranteed Income Through Cash and a Strong Safety Net

A California where all individuals – regardless of zip code, race, gender, immigration status, or education status – have the resources to provide for their needs through unrestricted cash payments as well as unconditional, easily accessible support through the safety net. That is the vision of Guaranteed Income, also sometimes called basic income or guaranteed …

Health & Safety Net

Poverty & Inequality