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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.
Many hope a new nationwide proposal will finally stop payday lenders from keeping poor people stuck in a cycle of debt.
States and localities are afraid to take on new debt these days, missing a golden opportunity to invest in infrastructure and other long-term projects.
Unlike mortgage and payday lenders, the growing number of institutions that offer quick cash to small businesses are still largely unregulated. Chicago is the first trying to change that.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Economists have a new idea that could revolutionize how struggling cities attract private funds.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A new report examines the ways in which struggling cities mismanage federal grants and offers ideas for fixing it.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.