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		<title>Infographic of the Week: Evolution of the U.S. Economy Since WWII</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How has the U.S. economy changed in the past fifty years? At the Atlantic you can see several answers contained in a single graph, which shows the percentage of total GDP created by each American industry from 1947 to 2009. If &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/infographic-of-the-week-evolution-of-the-us-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1217&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coolest (And Silliest) Infographics From The White House’s &#8220;Enhanced&#8221; State Of The Union Broadcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, the White House offered an “enhanced broadcast” of the State of the Union address that had graphs, statistics, and other images playing alongside Obama’s speech. It’s a pretty cool concept, offering a way to make the speech more &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/the-coolest-and-silliest-infographics-from-the-white-houses-enhanced-state-of-the-union-broadcast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1143&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Touting iPad Textbooks Raises More Questions Than It Answers (UPDATED 1/27)</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/study-touting-ipad-textbooks-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Apple innovation everyone is talking about is interactive textbooks for the iPad, which Apple and others are promising will revolutionize education. So far, the buzz seems to be working: in the first three days after the project was &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/study-touting-ipad-textbooks-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1126&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Pays? More on the Impact of Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/who-pays-more-on-the-impact-of-raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post last week, I wrote about the Congressional Budget Office’s new projection that raising the age of eligibility for Medicare from 65 to 67 could save the federal government $113 billion over the next decade. But I missed &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/who-pays-more-on-the-impact-of-raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1117&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Retirement Age Could Save $230 Billion Over Next Decade</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/raising-retirement-age-could-save-230-billion-over-next-decad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1950, there were 7 people of working age – 20 to 64 – for every person 65 or older. That ratio is currently below 5 and will fall below 3 by 2030. – CBO, 2012 The current age at which someone &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/raising-retirement-age-could-save-230-billion-over-next-decad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1109&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Disaffected Voters Romney Should Be Worried About</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans, like Democrats, come in many flavors: social conservatives, libertarians, neo-cons, moderates, big-business conservatives, evangelicals, independents, and so on. But what do these labels mean when people step into the voting booth? There are many ways you can carve up &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/the-disaffected-voters-romney-should-be-worried-about/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1101&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are For-Profit Colleges A Scam?</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/are-for-profit-colleges-a-scam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For-profit colleges are no stranger to controversy about whether they provide a quality education and the kind the career advancement promised in their marketing campaigns. A new study by Harvard economists will only add to the debate over whether students &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/are-for-profit-colleges-a-scam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Who Are You Protecting?” Police, Crime, and the Occupy movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in New York City in October, I went to see a major Occupy Wall Street march on Times Square. What left the biggest impression on me wasn’t the protestors, it was the sheer size of the police &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/who-are-you-protecting-police-crime-and-the-occupy-movement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1078&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Even Short Bouts of Unemployment Cause Lasting Setbacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the depths of the recession, from October 2008 to April 2009, around 700,000 people lost their jobs every month. Many of these workers remained jobless for long stretches of time, as this downturn produced the highest levels of long-term &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/unemployment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1067&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 States Where The Working Class Was Hit Hardest By Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been well documented that low-skilled workers were more likely to lose their jobs during the recession than those with higher levels of education. The current unemployment rate is 14.0% for workers without a high school degree, 9.7% for those &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/jobloss/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Myth-busting: The Recession Didn’t Destroy Retirement</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/retirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the stock and housing markets bottomed out three years ago, many older Americans saw their nest eggs disappear and had to delay their plans to retire. Or at least that’s the story that news outlets have been reporting for &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/retirement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1051&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should The U.S. Follow Britain’s Lead And Raise Taxes On The Rich?</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/should-the-u-s-follow-britain%e2%80%99s-lead-and-raise-taxes-on-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on those making over $1 million unleashed heated discussion over what the effect of such an increase might be. Will it reduce wealth inequality and close our deficit, or will it hurt the economy by &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/should-the-u-s-follow-britain%e2%80%99s-lead-and-raise-taxes-on-the-rich/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1043&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 Million Pushed Into Poverty By Rising Gas Prices Last Year</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/gasprice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, the Census Bureau released troubling data showing that the U.S. poverty rate jumped from 14.3% in 2009 to 15.1% in 2010, the highest it’s been in 17 years. Now economists from the Peterson Institute report that &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/gasprice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1031&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Studies Show That Getting Low Income Teens To College Requires More Than Just Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we close the gap in college attendance between children from low-income families and those from middle and upper-class backgrounds? Existing research shows that providing financial support is critical to helping students afford college (and feel financially comfortable enough &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/college/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1026&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Shows Military Service Increases Earnings Up To 40%, But Doesn’t Help You Get A College Degree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a young person just finishing high school, unsure about what he (or she) wants to do in life, the military offers glory, adventure, and the chance to serve one’s country. It also promises more tangible rewards: a steady job, &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/new-study-shows-military-service-increases-earnings-up-to-40-but-doesn%e2%80%99t-help-you-get-a-college-degree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Need A Millionaires’ Tax When We Have The AMT?</title>
		<link>http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/millionairestax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I reject the idea that asking a hedge fund manager to pay the same as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare. It’s just the right thing to do&#8230; This is not class warfare. It’s math. The money’s gonna &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/millionairestax/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=999&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Roundup: Economics &amp; Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some highlights from policy-relevant economic research released over the past week… Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans National Bureau of Economic Research // Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee Vermeulen, Marian Wrobel // September &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/research-roundup-economics-policy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=995&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Families Spend 17% Of Their Income On Healthcare-Related Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our biggest long-term economic challenges is the exploding cost of healthcare. From 1999 to 2009, per capita healthcare spending grew at two and a half times the rate of inflation. Healthcare spending now constitutes 17.6% of our GDP, &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/healthcare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=965&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Look At Obama’s Job Creation Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been focusing my posts this week on unemployment and what we can do to address it. Previously I provided an overview of the current situation and looked at the causes of unemployment. Last night, President Obama presented the American &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/a-quick-look-at-obama%e2%80%99s-job-creation-plan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=951&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Unemployment So Stubbornly High? A Look At The Prevailing Theories…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Brazzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of President Obama’s major jobs speech tonight, I’m focusing my posts this week on unemployment and what we can do to address it. Earlier I gave an overview of the situation in 10 Essential Facts About Our Unemployment &#8230; <a href="http://thepolicybrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/why-is-unemployment-so-stubbornly-high-a-look-at-the-prevailing-theories%e2%80%a6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepolicybrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23259494&amp;post=944&amp;subd=thepolicybrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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