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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.

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A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The burden that all state and local taxes place on Americans has fallen after hitting a national high in 2010.
A roundup of money (and other) news that governments can use.
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A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
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A video explainer on the mechanics and players that make the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market work.