Berkeley, CA, September 24, 2025 — A comprehensive series of reports released today by the nonpartisan California Policy Lab (CPL) and Committee on Revision of the Penal Code focuses on “second look” ...

California dramatically shrunk its prison population over two decades. How did those policies also reduce racial and ethnic disparities? Join the California Policy Lab (CPL) for a discussion of new ...

Proposition 36, enacted by California voters in November 2024, created two new “wobbler” statutes (meaning the prosecutor has the discretion to charge the offense as a misdemeanor or as a felony): ...

This presentation will discuss the labor market implications resulting from the California AI-Unemployment Tracker (CAIT) work. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced at an extraordinary pace, ...

Join the California Policy Lab for a lunch-time briefing on October 19th, 2026 in Sacramento. This briefing will provide an accessible introduction to the latest research on homelessness prevention, ...

Domestic violence is one of the most common forms of victimization. Nationally, over one million people reported being victims of domestic violence in 2024. 1 This report focuses on domestic violence ...

Growing costs of living are squeezing Californians’ pocketbooks and causing some households to consider relocating. Using unique data that anonymously tracks the same households over time from 2016 to ...

March 31, 2026, Berkeley, CA — A new report released today by the nonpartisan California Policy Lab (CPL) finds that Californians who leave the state tend to relocate to substantially more affordable ...

The San Francisco Bay Area has the highest cost of living in the country, and housing costs in particular are squeezing residents’ budgets. This report draws on the same longitudinal, anonymized ...

Financial instability is a leading driver of homelessness, and recent research has found that temporary financial assistance, targeted to at-risk households, reduces entries into homelessness. In 2021 ...

New analysis brings real-time data to one of the biggest questions facing workers: how artificial intelligence may be reshaping the labor market. June 25, 2026, Sacramento – A new, first-in-the-nation ...

Many assume people experiencing homelessness are not working. In Los Angeles County, which has the largest population of people experiencing homelessness in the country, a prior California Policy Lab ...