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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.

In 2016, states are expected to continue the growth they've experienced since the Great Recession. But the new era of growth is a modest one.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Over the past two decades, corporations have doubled their profits but contributed increasingly less to state revenues. Where is all the money going?
California recently revealed that it paid billions in fees to private equity managers, leading several other state pension systems to call for more transparency in such investments.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
But particularly in statewide executive office positions, which just 10 black women in nine states have ever held, according to a new report.
The effectiveness of subsidies is hard to measure. A new rule will make it easier, but there's still a lot of information that governments aren't required to share about business deals.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
States have increased their spending in every major area but two, according to a new NASBO report.