Wildfires are dramatically impacting state budgets as they deal with wildfire response, the damages from those fires and ways they might mitigate future wildfires. These are the topics we’ll cover in this podcast. Today’s podcast guest is Colin Foard is a manager with Pew’s fiscal federalism initiative, leading the project’s research into state and federal spending on natural disasters and other topics. He also engages stakeholders to improve understanding of the federal-state fiscal relationship and ensure that policymakers have data and evidence to inform their decision-making. 
In this podcast we explore how Wildfires: Burning Through State Budgets which is a report from The Pew Charitable Trusts. For those who listen to this podcast you can also sign up and attend a Webinar on How States Can Better Budget for Wildfires, being held on December 15, 2022.

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