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I'm Caleb Brown.

States in the US vary widely in the relative intrusiveness of government.

The Cato Institute's new edition of Freedom in the 50 states once again combs through

the data to find how states are performing on a wide variety of metrics.

The report's authors are Jason Sorin's and Will Ruger. The report of five states sort of jump around a little bit.

Who's number one?

So this year New Hampshire takes the top spot,

basically eclipsing Florida, which was number one in the fifth edition.

And just so we understand very clearly, when do your measures start and end?

Because this is a common problem with a lot of these types of measurements is that people will say, well, why don't you have data from this year?

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