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<title><![CDATA[Steven Greenhut - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15546.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Steven Greenhut]]></description><category domain="15546">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How California Incinerated Its Insurance Market]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/california-incinerated-its-insurance-market/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Insurance is the foundation of homeownership and the economy, but California leaders have dilly-dallied in the face of a long-running crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Equity' Grading Is Latest Educational Fad Destined To Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/05/03/equity-grading-is-the-latest-educational-fad-destined-to-fail/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[COVID School Closures Wrecked Student Performance]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2024/03/01/more-evidence-that-covid-school-closures-wrecked-student-performance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California's poorly served public school students need more than a few more dollars diverted to tutoring programs. They need an escape hatch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left Now Says CA Recall Election Is 'Undemocratic']]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/08/20/some-progressives-are-now-claiming-californias-recall-election-is-undemocratic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But they don't really think that the recall process is illegitimate or unconstitutional. They simply don't like that it's being used against one of their own.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers Unions Use Political Clout to Keep Schools Shut]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2021/05/07/teachers-unions-use-political-clout-to-keep-classrooms-closed/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The public school system is a travesty that does not'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and cannot'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'put students first.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Will Try to California-ize the Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/biden-california-print-magazine-american-spectator/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California lawmakers' arrogance won't change, but now Congress will try to impose these regulatory policies on the entire country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Is a Cautionary Tale for America]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2020/10/02/california-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California bounds from one crisis to another; most of them being self-imposed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's War on Workers]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/californias-war-on-workers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A gushing article in the liberal publication Vox declared in September that a new California law that outlaws the use of contractors in many industries, is a victory for workers everywhere. Assembly Bill 5 was not just another progressive victory...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressivism Without Guard Rails]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/progressivism-without-guard-rails/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sacramento The last week of the legislative session always is a wild ride, but this year's proceedings'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' take on an urgency that we haven't seen in the past several years given the stridently more progressive tilt of the state government. It's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's War on Cars]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/californias-war-on-cars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sacramento On a trip back from the rugged Mendocino coast, we were fortunate enough to reach California State Route 37, which meanders along the north side of San Pablo Bay from Marin County to the Interstate 80 intersection at Vallejo,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California's War on 'Economic Crimes' Echoes Communism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/07/californias-war-on-economic-crimes-raises-eerie-parallels-to-communist-countries/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Progressive Experiment That's Doomed to Fail]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/an-experiment-thats-doomed-to-fail/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the states are supposed to be'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' laboratories for democracy, where new ideas that reflect regional attitudes can flourish, then cities are like micro-laboratories. Local governments can try out ideas that would never get statewide traction. Unfortunately, some California cities are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democratic Rhetoric on GOP Tax Law Is Just Silly]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/12/29/democratic-rhetoric-on-gop-tax-law-is-ju</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Your money is yours, not the government's.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Teachers Unions Losing Long War Over Parental Choice]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/26/teachers-unions-losing-long-war-over-par</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Choice advocates win in school board race in second largest district in country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rent Control Kicks the Poor Out of San Fran]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/29/san-francisco-values-pricing-poor-out-of</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People use the term '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'San Francisco values'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' to refer, proudly or facetiously, to the occasionally oddball politics and culture in the City by the Bay. While many San Francisco debates'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'i.e., over Happy Meal bans or limits on nude dining'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'are unique, the latest brouhaha could have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Specter of Bankruptcy Haunts California]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/18/the-specter-of-bankruptcy-haunts-califor</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most optimistic pension reformers had hoped that the decrepit city of Stockton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2012 bankruptcy would be a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'day of reckoning'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a point where the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s leaders would pare back overly generous retirement benefits and embark on a road to fiscal responsibility.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Nation Founded on the Right Ideals]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/07/05/independence-day-celebrates-a-nation-fou</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Independence Day, we celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, but we really are celebrating the unique vision upon which our society was founded, even if it isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t always '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'sold'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to the public in an easily understood and appealing way. There are two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Divorce Marriage From the Government]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/28/lets-divorce-marriage-from-the-governmen</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ensuing hijinks are the makings of sitcom legend. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve thought about that episode in the years in which the contentious battle over gay marriage has unfolded, as it touches on a key part of the public-policy question embodied in the Supreme Court's two big decisions this week....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does More Regulation Prevent Tragedies?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/05/10/free-markets-are-more-important-than-saf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California and Texas officials have been having an ongoing tit-for-tat over which of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s two mega-states is the better place to live and do business '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' something that has become a proxy issue for the broader philosophical debate over the proper size and scope of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Union Greed Drives California to Bankruptcy]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/03/29/union-greed-drives-california-bankruptcy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few non-local people pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold-Rush-era industrial city of 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But bond-holders, taxpayers and government officials...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Calif. Wants Oil Tax Revenue Without Oil]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-10/californians-want-oil-s-tax-revenue-without-the-oil.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only thing California'senvironmentally friendly Democratic legislators prefer to regulating private industry is spending public dollars. So it's fascinating to watch them struggle with an unfolding dilemma.The state can tap into a gusher of new revenue only if legislators resist the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In California, 'Moderate Dem' an Oxymoron]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/in-california-moderate-democrat-is-an-oxymoron.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Fortunately, there is a backstop to flagrant tax increases and immediate spending and it'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s not Republicans -- it is the moderate Democrats,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' according to an analysis by the Independent Insurance Agents &amp; Brokers of California. According to this wishful thinking, the Democratic caucus...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Failure on Display in California]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/01/progressive-failure-is-on-display-in-cal</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's bad enough that other states have to deal with ourresidents, who are fleeing our success-punishing tax and regulatoryregimen, but now, apparently, they are going to have to deal withour bad ideas, promoted through smug lectures from California'sliberal politicians.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Speeds Toward a Wall of Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/california-unsaved-speeds-toward-a-wall-of-debt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A cursory glance at Governor Jerry Brown's new budget could make you believe that California's days of fiscal gloom are over as he champions a balanced budget and newfound "fiscal restraint."California had been floating in debt. Then Brown persuaded voters in November to increase sales...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Year's Predictions for California]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/tax-381951-state-california.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California's Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the recent election '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' voter-approved tax increases and two-thirds supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Republicans little more than an annoying...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Utopian Fantasies of Gun Control Advocates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/gun-381359-california-guns.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' It took only days before California's legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders' unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially illegal for Californians...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Latest Scam From CA's Public Unions]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/05/the-latest-scam-from-californias-public</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If California voters grant the state government the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' legislative Democrats have been demanding via November's Proposition'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' even more benefits...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Driving Away Businesses, Residents]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/28/californias-failed-policies-are-driving</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I penned a case for staying in California, arguing that there's nothing wrong here that isn't fixable.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' California, blessed by magnificent and varied geography, mild weather, and an "anything's possible" culture, suffers mainly from a political'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' process controlled by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From the Windy City Teachers Strike]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/14/chicago-strike-shows-how-unions-stifle-r</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the latest reminder that teachers' unions exist to expandthe pay and protections of teachers, not to help "the children."Unions protect their worst-performing members, which is why MayorRahm Emanuel's testing plan caused so much angst.We've all read examples of unions coddling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Is Broken, Bordering on Corrupt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-06/scandals-show-california-is-broken-not-broke.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steven Greenhut</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Voters are accustomed to the scare tactics of tax-hungry politicians who warn of looming cuts in schools and public safety.But nothing gets people's attention like closing parks. And in California, where the state beaches and mountain refuges are as beloved as the politicians are...]]></description>
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