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liz-farmer

Liz Farmer

Liz Farmer, who formerly covered fiscal policy as a Governing staff writer, helps lead the Pew Charitable Trusts’ state fiscal health project’s Fiscal 50 online resource, focusing on budgets, fiscal distress, tax policy and pensions. A former research fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government’s Future of Labor Research Center, Farmer holds a bachelor’s degree in American history, film and television production from George Washington University and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland.

The California city, known for its out-there policies, will be the nation's first to issue municipal bonds using cryptocurrency.
A first-of-its-kind study looks at how local news outlets shutting down impacts cities' and counties' finances.
Connecticut, Maryland, New York and New Jersey argue that new GOP tax policies violate states' rights and unduly punish their populations.
Voters handed Republican lawmakers a victory by passing a new supermajority requirement to raise taxes. But it's debatable whether it will actually curb tax increases.
Most states don't know how much they spend on extreme weather events.
Green bonds help governments finance environmental projects. It's unclear whether they help governments' finances.
The revenue-raising strategy is more common in blue states. So far, four Democratic-controlled states have passed such a tax.
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public-sector unions this week. Whether it'll save governments labor costs is debatable.
Investors are lining up to buy them to fund environmental projects.
Even the return to one-party rule hasn't helped the perennial budget battles in Trenton.