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REPORT · NOVEMBER 2023

Priorities for California’s Water: Stewarding the Wet Years

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Explainer · October 2023

What’s Behind California’s Recent Population Decline—and Why It Matters

California’s unprecedented population loss during the pandemic raises questions about what a shrinking or slowly growing population means for the state’s future.

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Priorities for California’s Water

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Understanding the Reach of the California Earned Income Tax Credit

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Crime Trends in California

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Report · September 2023

Are Younger Generations Committing Less Crime?

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Policy Brief: Are Younger Generations Committing Less Crime?

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PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Economic Well-Being

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Understanding the Reach of the California Earned Income Tax Credit

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Policy Brief: Understanding the Reach of the California Earned Income Tax Credit

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Tracking Progress in Community College Access and Success

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Policy Brief: Tracking Progress in Community College Access and Success

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Assessing Transitional Kindergarten’s Impact on Elementary School Trajectories

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PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Economic Well-Being

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Poverty in California

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The Working Poor in California

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Report · October 2023

Tracking Progress in Community College Access and Success

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Policy Brief · October 2023

Policy Brief: Tracking Progress in Community College Access and Success

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PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Economic Well-Being

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Priorities for California’s Water

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Managing Water and Farmland Transitions in the San Joaquin Valley

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A Better Way to Promote Urban Water Conservation

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Is the American Dream in California Dying?

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Crime Trends in California

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California Voter and Party Profiles

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California’s Population

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Fact Cards

About 2 in 3 Californians support the state making its own policies to address climate change.
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California added more than 5 million people since 1990, yet urban water use changed little.
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Gun deaths drove California’s largest-ever rise in homicides.
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94% Most Californians say housing affordability is a problem in their part of the state.
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Party registration sept 2023 Democrats are the largest block of registered voters by party.
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55% Most California adults favor providing health care to undocumented immigrants.
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Schools were a key source of food for low-income families despite closures during the pandemic.
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A majority of the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools are “high need”—low-income, English Learner (EL), homeless, or foster youth.
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Safety net programs kept more than 19.7% of children out of poverty in fall 2021.
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In 2020, California lost population for the first time in state history.
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