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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.

Ride-hailing services are crying foul. But cities and states say they’re merely taxing services.
Oklahoma is now the second state to reverse course on tax cuts in favor of boosting teacher pay. Will Arizona be next?
It's meant to help property owners afford energy-efficiency upgrades. But some have concerns over lending standards and consumer protections.
Several major programs -- some that the White House aimed to eliminate -- will get a significant funding boost. President Trump signed the bill hours after threatening to veto it.
The regulations that took effect this year let governments decide what's worth reporting, leading many to not report anything at all.
The first major bipartisan banking bill since Dodd-Frank has some potential pluses and minuses for states and localities.
President Trump's "Buy American" policies are expected to cause the most harm to states such as Florida, Michigan and Texas.
In case the Supreme Court legalizes it this summer, states are racing to take advantage of the new revenue. But it likely won't be the jackpot they're hoping for.
Congress and the state of New York are trying to bring down the infrastructure bills. But what's making them so high?
Water utilities are struggling to lower their operation costs and simultaneously meet stricter environmental rules. Blue Drop, the brainchild of DC Water’s former leader, wants to help.