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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.

A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
North Carolina wants to use existing low rates to shore up retiree pensions and health-care debt.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Fake news is as old as Bigfoot. But social media and the president have fueled its recent proliferation.
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When state laws drive so-called "debt traps" to shut down, the industry moves its business online. Do their low-income customers follow?
The laws about public records differ from one government to the next and are further complicated by some technologies, like police body cameras.