Jackson Brainerd is a program principal in NCSL’s Fiscal Affairs Program overseeing state tax, economic development and gambling policy. He also staffs NCSL’s Task Force on State and Local Taxation and its Budgets and Revenue Standing Committee. Before joining NCSL in 2014, Brainerd earned a bachelor’s in political science from Colorado College and served in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Office of Correspondence. His written work and research on state fiscal policy has been cited by Bloomberg, Politico, Reuters, NPR and The Wall St. Journal, among other publications.