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A look at California’s property tax 35 years after passage of Proposition 13.

. . . presents the employment rates of California women over time; their current employment rate according to age group, highest degree attained, and race/ethnic category; and their occupational category with median personal income.

In January, Los Angeles Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote a piece dealing with the movement of a manufacturing firm out of California. He used the loss of the firm to lament the difficulties faced by the state’s manufacturers and the fact California lacks any industrial development policy. In March, the paper’s Sacramento columnist, George Skelton, wrote an article citing the difficulties being created for the state by misuse of the CEQA process. Key observers thus appear to be starting to understand that our state government, with Democrats now controlling every constitutional office and veto proof majorities in both houses, has done little to worry about California’s prosperity and the huge portion of its residents with high school or less educations. As the Chief Economist of the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, I have had to worry about these facts as they directly affect the region about which we are concerned.

. . . new economic study produced by leading academic economists that examines the role that development of oil from California’s Monterey Shale Formation can play in the future economic well-being of the state of California.. . . documenting the potential impact of development of the Monterey Shale on job creation, economic activity, personal incomes, and government tax revenues over the next 15 years.

State and county level data on migration drawn from federal income tax return filings. Currently available 1990 to 2010.

. . . considers the changes in the State’s employment structure over the past two decade, looking at the growth and contractions in its core industries. This report then analyzes some of the factors that have led to these employment changes, in particular those factors affected by government policies.

Data tool for accessing Bureau of the Census data from different series

Annual demographic and housing data for California and Los Angeles MSA

Annual and monthly permit data for the state, counties, and metropolitan areas

Ongoing survey that provides demographic, income, education, and employment data on the population

Quarterly data of job gains (expansions and openings) and job losses (contractions and closing) by industry and by size of firm

US labor force, employment, and unemployment data

State and county labor force, employment, and unemployment data

Annual measures of GDP and income for the state, counties, and metropolitan areas

. . .index to measure and understand the current state of human capital in each metropolitan area and each county across the nation. The CHCI is developed based mainly on the average education attainment of residents in each city.