The California Policy Lab generates research insights for government impact. Through hands-on partnerships with government agencies, CPL performs rigorous research across issue silos and builds the ...

The Safety Net dataset was created as part of the Policy Evaluation and Research Linkage Initiative (PERLI), a four-year project funded by the National Science Foundation that established powerful 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): ...

Since 2011, California has embarked on a series of dramatic criminal justice reform efforts, from realignment to recent ballot initiatives and court cases that have changed the state’s approach to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In response to the pandemic, Congress permitted a temporary expansion to college student eligibility for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), or CalFresh as it is known in California. The ...

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 ...

The University of California Consumer Credit Panel (UC-CCP) is a dataset of anonymized consumer credit information, created for the purpose of studying consumer financial well-being and identifying ...

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 ...