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In March 2023, Congress allowed pandemic-era emergency allotments (EAs) for SNAP recipients to expire. In California, participants in CalFresh (as SNAP is known in the state) saw their monthly benefits drop by $190 on average between February and March 2023. In an accompanying CPL report, we showed that CalFresh participants had higher earnings after EAs expired b...
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):
Penal Code § 666.1 (PC § 666.1), which makes petty theft or shoplifting a potential felony if the person has two or more prior theft-related convictions ...