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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.

Medicaid expansion, education funding and tax breaks are at the heart of the stalemates this year. The delays may hurt some states more than others.
The state is drawing inspiration from the gambling industry to get cannabis businesses access to banks.
Fearing more changes from Congress, states and cities are turning less and less to the municipal bond market.
President Trump's ending of the safe release program is costing cities and counties. Congress is debating a bill that would at least partially reimburse them.
Almost every state has jumped at the opportunity to tax online purchases.
Cautiously and slowly, governments are taking more risks and modernizing the way they purchase goods and services.
Still, a few states may miss the July deadline, leading to a government shutdown in some.
"There is something to upset everyone in the IRS rule."
The state, which has worse credit than any other and has had chronic budget deficits, passed a fiscal plan this week that relies on new revenue sources to help pay down its massive debt.
Congress passed a long-delayed bill to help places recover from past (and future) natural disasters. President Trump is expected to sign it.