This issue brief discusses the possibility of a premium assistance program in California that targets recent welfare recipients by addressing three main policy questions.

1) Are welfare recipients a good target population for a premium assistance program?

2) Who would be elligible for premium assistance and where do they work?

3) What are the challenges of premium assistance programs in California?

This issue brief discusses the possibility of a premium assistance program in California that targets recent welfare recipients by addressing three main policy questions. 1) Are welfare recipients a good target population for a premium assistance program? 2) Who would be eligible for premium assistance and where do they work? 3) What are the challenges of premium assistance programs in California?

This issue brief analyzes the coverage sources of children of recent welfare recipients in Los Angeles County and examines the relationship between parents and children’s sources of coverage by addressing three primary policy questions. 1) How does the source of coverage of parents who were recent welfare recipients affect the source of coverage for their children? 2) Do parents who are off welfare and no longer covered by Medi-Cal maintain public insurance coverage for their children? 3) How do combinations of coverage sources for recent welfare recipients and their children differ by recipient employment outcomes?

This issue brief analyzes the coverage sources of children of recent welfare recipients in Los Angeles County and examines the relationship between parents and children's sources of coverage by addressing three primary policy questions.

1)How does the source of coverage of parents who were recent welfare recipients affect the source of coverage for their children?

2)Do parents who are off welfare and no longer covered by Medi-Cal maintain public insurance coverage for their children?

3) How do combinations of coverage sources for recent welfare recipients and their children differ by recipient employment outcomes?

In the past three decades, the Los Angeles region has witnessed a large-scale spatial reorganization of poverty. Where once concentrated poverty was confined to neighborhoods in the inner-city, it has since spread to the suburbs. This shifting concentration of poor neighborhoods is driven mainly by immigration and broader changes in the regional economy. Increasing economic mobility for second and subsequent generations of immigrants through education is the region's key challenge.

This report combines analysis of firm-level insurance data with welfare and employment information to explore the availability of employment-based insurance for welfare recipients who are transitioning into the labor market in Los Angeles county. To understand the complex and dynamic nature of this issue, multiple data sources are utilized to provide information from the perspective of both welfare recipients who are transitioning into the labor market (laborsupply side) and the firms that employ them (labor-demand side). The primary data sources include an employer benefits survey completed in 2000, administrative welfare and employment data covering a period from 1996-2001, and a survey of recent welfare recipients conducted in 2002/2003.

California emergency departments (EDs) treated about 143,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2019, according to hospital discharge records. Almost half of homeless patients visited the ED four or more times in the year.

Medi-Cal covered 70 percent of ED visits by homeless patients, underscoring the importance of the CalAIM program, which provides added Medi-Cal benefits, such as housing supports and case management.

Linking discharge data with homeless assistance program data can offer insights into how people engage with EDs and homeless services across the state, and throughout the year, as well as help evaluate programs and public investments.

This work has been supported, in part, by the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives grants MRP-19-600774 and M21PR3278