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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 new report ranks the most and least fair tax systems.
The Oklahoma city's "Black Wall Street" was one of the richest African-American neighborhoods in the country. Then whites burned it to the ground.
As service taxes gain favor as a way to raise revenue, there's a growing movement to stop them. Voters in Arizona joined it on Tuesday.
The revised trade pact keeps the original agreement's free trade zone intact while placing some new burdens on the auto industry.
Lawmakers want to raise taxes on pharmaceutical companies to help pay for the cost of the opioid crisis. But success has been elusive.
The older a state is, according to new research, the more likely it is to have money problems.
Ballot measures in California and Louisiana sought to protect homeowners from huge property tax spikes.
A new report shows pension plan investments are seeing lower returns and are more volatile than ever.
But according to two analyses, a majority of states have nearly enough savings to weather a downturn.
In its bid to start collecting a sales tax on internet purchases, Colorado could run afoul of the Supreme Court's ruling.