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Liz Farmer

Liz Farmer is an officer with Pew's State Fiscal Health Project, focusing on budgets, fiscal distress, tax policy and pensions.

Policy
Policy

On education funding: Two approaches, and it's not clear either one works

One solution holds that the public school system itself is the problem to be fixed while the other says that targeting money to disadvantaged communities is the answer. Both approaches are expensive.

  • By Liz Farmer

Policy
Policy

As states plan for next year’s budget, economy flashes mixed signals

In Florida, lawmakers are flush with cash this year, in part because of higher-than-expected tax revenues.

  • By Liz Farmer