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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.

State and local officials devoted thousands of hours, and put other projects on hold, to lure the company.
Budget directors are still figuring out how much of the tax law's impact on state revenues was a one-time boost.
It’s an increasingly divisive question. If the goal is to affect change -- from gun control to climate change -- some argue that to divest is the best, while others believe pensions would have more power keeping their financial stake.
The VA is working with states and cities to use the innovative financing approach to help veterans with PTSD find gainful employment. If it's successful, the payoff for investors is big.
Former Elections Director for Denver
An unprecedented number of female candidates ran for state or local office this year.
Efforts to raise state taxes largely failed. That wasn't the case at the local level.
One-third of states will be "super-aged" by 2026, weighing down economies and finances for years to come.
Voters rejected a financial practice already common in most other oil-dependent states.
Businesses wanted voters to protect exemptions, loopholes and tax breaks that collectively cost the state more than $12 billion a year.