blog post A Regional Look at the Availability of Well-Paying Jobs after COVID By Rachel Lawler, Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Sarah Bohn Dec 1, 2022 Dec 1, 2022 ... California's economy recently passed an important threshold: recovering the 2.7 million jobs lost during the pandemic.
blog post A Tight Labor Market: Challenges for Business, Opportunities for Workers? By Sarah Bohn, Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Vicki Hsieh, Julien Lafortune Nov 21, 2022 Nov 21, 2022 ... Job openings remain well above historical trends, as the California economy has now regained all of the jobs lost during the pandemic. While ...
blog post Video: Californians and Their Economic Well-Being By Vicki Hsieh Nov 18, 2022 Nov 18, 2022 ... Researchers Dean Bonner and Rachel Lawler discuss key findings from the latest PPIC Statewide Survey, which examines views on the California ...
blog post Shrinking Household Size Strains California’s Housing Market By Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Hans Johnson, Julien Lafortune Nov 17, 2022 Nov 17, 2022 ... Changing demographic patterns during the pandemic—with Californians “spreading out” across more housing units—has boosted housing demand, ...
blog post Climate-Challenged California Must Learn to Thrive with Less Water By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount Nov 16, 2022 Nov 16, 2022 ... There are ways to soften the economic impacts of fallowing through water trading and groundwater banking. Alternate uses for fallowed ...
blog post Video: Solar Development in the San Joaquin Valley By Sarah Bardeen Nov 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 ... Huron is one of the poorest cities in the state of California, and agriculture has been its economic backbone. Now “[l]ettuce season is all ...
blog post Inflation Squeezes Californians’ Budgets, despite Wage Growth By Sarah Bohn, Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Julien Lafortune Nov 3, 2022 Nov 3, 2022 ... Unfortunately, these actions raise the specter of an economic downturn. Raising interest rates and constricting the economy generally lead ...
blog post Steep Declines in Child Poverty Have Been Driven by Safety Net Programs By Caroline Danielson Oct 26, 2022 Oct 26, 2022 ... A key role of safety net programs is to address immediate economic need, and policymakers expand programs to meet elevated need during ...
blog post The Politics of Leaving California By Eric McGhee, Hans Johnson Oct 17, 2022 Oct 17, 2022 ... These differences persist—and are slightly accentuated—when we control for a host of demographic and economic factors.
blog post Video: 2022 Election Preview By Vicki Hsieh Oct 14, 2022 Oct 14, 2022 ... Four months ago, all of the economic and political trends ... Wade in June, “an election that was just going to be about the economy is now ...