Supported with funding from the Lumina Foundation and the Sutton Family Fund California’s higher education systems are finally starting to see a return to pre-pandemic enrollment growth levels. But ...
Only a small number of mailed ballots are rejected for arriving late, but rejection rates have been rising in recent ...
The past year highlighted and heightened California’s key challenges. Millions of Californians lost jobs and income during the COVID-19 crisis; low-income families, communities of color, and women ...
Supported with funding from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Cities, counties, and the state generally provide and fund different services. State government generally pays for statewide services such ...
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10% Share of working Californians who live in poverty.
This November, voters will decide the fate of several tax initiatives on the California ballot. Join PPIC for an engaging and informative discussion on the fiscal impacts, public sentiment, and ...
Caroline Danielson is vice president of research and senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Her research focuses on multiple dimensions of the social safety net, including its ...
The self-employed are an important source of job creation. Jobs created by the self-employed in California accounted for 23% of total employment in 2023, slightly higher than in the rest of the US (20 ...
Jeffrey Mount is a senior fellow at the PPIC Water Policy Center. He is an emeritus professor of earth and planetary sciences and founding director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the ...
About one in three Californians live in or near poverty, and the longstanding divide between rich and poor poses major challenges for our state and nation. PPIC builds understanding of what economic ...
California has undertaken numerous corrections reforms in the past decade-including public safety realignment in 2011 and Proposition 47 in 2014-in hopes of reducing the prison population, maintaining ...