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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.

The idea is gaining popularity as a way to get around federal laws that ban banks from handling cannabis businesses' money. But a new report pans the idea.
Despite going into special session, lawmakers still don't have a solution for the least-funded pension system in the nation.
A new survey reveals how little the public knows about their state government. Media coverage is partly to blame.
Observers thought the federal law would stifle the sale of municipal bonds -- and in effect infrastructure projects. But it hasn't been that bad.
The bulk of the funding boosts are going toward education and rainy day savings.
Economists say the unprecedented period of economic growth may be coming to an end.
The idea has advantages for pensions and is likely to be attractive to places with major pension funding issues.
Governments in the U.S. are starting to accept cryptocurrencies, a controversial method of payment that got its start on the dark web.
Platte County, Mo., is being punished for its resistance to bailing out a retail center that opened during the recession and has struggled to make bond payments.
This is the first holiday season since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to tax online shopping.