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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.

Is a 30-year bond realistic when the economic lives of stadiums are proving to be much shorter?
The president's budget outlines ambitious spending proposals in health care and infrastructure -- though their likelihood of passing is slim.
Washington, D.C., may offer some people financial incentives to follow the law. It wouldn't be the first.
The states most dependent on oil tax revenues have different ways of dealing with the industry slowdown.
In Seattle, a new private library -- the first of its kind in a century -- is based on the throwback idea of having a quiet place to read.
Chief financial officers used to be concerned with just balancing the books. But today’s CFOs have taken on a higher role.
With the worst-funded pension system in the country, Kentucky offers a glimpse of what could be in store for other states.