https://www.impact-policy.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-02-27 https://www.impact-policy.com/blog/is-our-laws-learning monthly 0.5 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65c4298cee83f035b43680aa/80854476-c5ed-4c01-8b7f-825bb127214e/4939-fig7.png Blog - Is Our Laws Learning? - The Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has been making this case since its FY 2025-26 Fiscal Outlook published in November, 2024, yet neither the Governor nor the Legislature has meaningfully addressed this structural deficit. Rather, a new $21 billion “Wall of Debt” has been the primary tool to address recent budget deficits. Structural deficit projection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65c4298cee83f035b43680aa/28b9f467-9b36-4af3-bb4f-c3a4be8c86f7/CA+General+and+Special+Funds+Expenses+Less+Revenues+%28%27000s%29.png Blog - Is Our Laws Learning? - For example, this chart is meaningless. Because budgets are continuously evaluated and updated over a 3 year window, expenditures and revenues often shift between years after the fact. That means that it is not possible to look at a given fiscal year and even say if the state government spent more money than it collected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65c4298cee83f035b43680aa/8f5e0b76-c733-4f02-a360-ccb64a63e166/4983-fig1.png Blog - Is Our Laws Learning? - That said, the LAO is doing what it can to make sense of the state’s spending growth major components to orient policymakers to the primary areas that will require either new revenues or spending reductions to avoid chronic structural deficits. But how are we to dig further into to these policy areas to understand what state funding is accomplishing and, more importantly, what benefit it’s bringing to Californians? At least one positive development is Speaker Rivas’ Outcomes Review for a select set of past legislation, though it remains to be seen what results will come from these self-administered evaluations. As well, it’s unclear how much this approach could scale up in the future to cover these vast, diverse topics. https://www.impact-policy.com/blog/ai-and-campaign-finance monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65c4298cee83f035b43680aa/84b3af56-8105-4547-b101-f01615afeb95/CalAccess_Structure.png Blog - AI and Campaign Finance - Make it stand out Mapping of FPPC Campaign Finance Forms to CalAccess Tables https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65c4298cee83f035b43680aa/e2da11f6-df21-45e9-a198-ddc28b4ec99e/LLM_Results.png Blog - AI and Campaign Finance - Make it stand out Sample query results for “Who were the top 10 donors to Ben Allen this cycle?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65c4298cee83f035b43680aa/bf0da91d-0395-4298-9c07-43c12511cbc6/Total+Monetary+Contributions+to+CA+Recipient+Committees+%28%27000s%29.png Blog - AI and Campaign Finance - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the 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