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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.
Tight budgets, declining oil prices and pension scares are some key finance topics that state and local governments will face in 2015.
A look back at four of this year's trends in public finance.
Almost 40 percent of pension plans examined, even those that have been well-funded, have yet to reach their pre-recession peaks.
Thanks to changes in the market, bond ratings don’t mean what they used to.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
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With most of the new money going toward education and Medicaid and expected pushes for tax cuts from new Republican lawmakers, the competition for the limited leftovers remains fierce.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
A new report shows federal spending accounts for nearly one-fifth of the nation's economic activity, but its impact varies wildly from state to state.