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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.

Amid uncertainty about federal tax reform, states are exercising caution with their fiscal 2018 budgets.
The state has passed unprecedented regulations to protect borrowers from taking on debt they can't afford to pay back.
The legal strategy to get states to provide adequate education funding has changed -- and it's working in schools' favor.
Gov. Mary Fallin’s office estimates state agencies spend up to $58 million a year on monogrammed giveaways like key chains, pens and stress balls.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The increase in annual spending is largely due to rising health-care costs and increased investment in transportation.
Minority and LGBTQ women, in particular, scored big victories in state and local races across the country.