While California taxpayers are faced with hundreds of billions of dollars in unfunded pension liability for government employees, CalPERS officials …
Studies and Reports
The mismanagement of California: Follow the Money 2013
The mismanagement of California through waste fraud and abuse costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year that could be better spent on priorities that …
Tax Credits in California: Economic Growth Engine or Wasteful Corporate Welfare?
This study looks at certain corporation tax and sales and use tax credits deductions and exemptions in order to evaluate whether they serve their …
New Study on Alarming Compensation Trends for State Workers
This study sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation found that total expenditures by the State of California to finance salaries and …
OPINION: Analysis: If only union-hugging Democrats could learn to say ‘no
James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times takes a critical look at the Democratic Party's continual pandering towards union interests as exemplified by …
California Prisons Study
This study sponsored by HJTA gives a detailed report of the financial condition of state prisons in California. The study shows how a privatized …
The California High Speed Rail Proposal: A Due Diligence Report
A just-released study The California High Speed Rail Proposal: A Due Diligence Report by transportation experts Wendell Cox and Joseph Vranich …
After 30 years Prop. 13 still winner with California voters poll shows
A just-completed survey of California voters shows that Proposition 13 Howard Jarvis' landmark tax limitation measure approved by two-to-one in 1978 …
2008 California Piglet Book
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) have joined forces to publish the California Piglet Book …
Public Pension Liability Study
The Center for Government Analysis has released the results of a study of the 130 public pension systems in California their financial health and the …