blog post How Is California’s Labor Market Doing amid Inflation Pressures? By Jenny Duan, Sarah Bohn May 25, 2023 2 days ago ... In California, cooling inflation has coincided with a slowdown in labor force growth, though on net the labor market still appears solid.
blog post Safeguarding the Future of California’s Freshwater Ecosystems By Sarah Bardeen May 22, 2023 5 days ago ... ... forces this year as our 2023–24 PPIC CalTrout ecosystem fellows. We recently asked them to tell us more about what they'll be working on ...
blog post A Regional Look at California’s Latest Employment Trends By Sarah Bohn, Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Jenny Duan, Julien Lafortune Mar 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023 ... However, countervailing economic forces add volatility and uncertainty over the coming months: interest rates are rising, inflation remains high ...
Report Achieving Universal Broadband in California By Joseph Hayes, Niu Gao, Darriya Starr, Amy Gong Liu Mar 29, 2023 Workers relied on the internet to telecommute and receive workforce training (Galperin et al. 2021); patients needed the internet to access telehealth ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: Pandemic Changes to Medi-Cal and Implications for California’s Immigrant Farmworkers By Paulette Cha Mar 22, 2023 Mar 31, 2023 ... California has expanded Medi-Cal in stages to undocumented immigrants. Farmworkers are a heavily immigrant workforce, and about half are ...
Explainer Is College Worth It? By Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Cesar Alesi Perez, Vicki Hsieh, Hans Johnson Mar 8, 2023 Beyond wage gains, the job market favors college graduates in other ways as well. Graduates are more likely to participate in the labor force, less likely to be ...
blog post Human Trafficking in California By Heather Harris Feb 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 ... Labor trafficking is broad in scope and includes forced work in any industry. Sex trafficking refers specifically to forced sex work.
Fact Sheet Law Enforcement Staffing in California By Brandon Martin, Magnus Lofstrom, Andrew Skelton Feb 13, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 ... Almost half of California's law enforcement officers work for municipal police departments. Statewide staffing levels dropped significantly ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: The Future of Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Ellen Hanak, Spencer Cole, Josué Medellín-Azuara Feb 8, 2023 In past work, we found that two approaches could significantly mitigate the ... agriculture will shrink in the next two decades as SGMA comes into force.
Report Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Arrests in California By Deepak Premkumar, Thomas Sloan, Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes Feb 7, 2023 Feb 10, 2023 ... These measures halted regular work, travel, entertainment, and socializing patterns. Within the criminal justice system, ...