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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.

After balancing Michigan's budget and creating sweeping tax reforms, John Nixon, a former POY, is taking a position at the University of Utah.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
It would be naive to say that politics is not part of Chief Financial Officers' job. But for them, the challenge is to prove that their allegiance is to the balance sheets.
Bitcoin scored a win with a new ruling that keeps many of its users free from cumbersome federal regulations. But state and local governments can still regulate the virtual currency.
This week's roundup of money (and other) news that governments can use touches on retirement security, ridiculously cold weather, superdowngrades and more.
Less than a year after the Boston Marathon bombing, in which social media and crowdsourcing proved instrumental to finding the suspects, this year’s Super Bowl security technology pools resources in a way that that uses data to paint the most comprehensive picture yet.
The president signed an executive order Wednesday to offer retirement accounts to workers who don’t have access to them. The program will be watched closely by states contemplating similar solutions.
When the Jaguars played in London last year, the Florida city's mayor tagged along and used the trip to convince a top financial investment firm to open a new office in Jacksonville.
Crucial (and complicated) concepts in public money explained.