This year, Mississippi and North Carolina both ditched a vague "good moral character" clause that kept occupational licensing out of reach for people with criminal records.
Plus: dangerous publishers, a history of slavery, and more...
Licensing reform efforts cross partisan barriers. Unfortunately, so do efforts to cripple opportunity and prosperity.
Plus: Portland mulls an anti-mask law, solar companies hoard panels before tax credits expire, and 2020 candidates have some plans.
Plus: Trump drops Census citizenship quest, veterans says wars weren't worth it, millennials make good nuns, and more...
If the past is any sort of guide to what comes next, his fears about a jobless economy (and his policy prescriptions to fix it) are completely misplaced.
Plus: life after ISIS, Kansas says state constitution guarantees abortion access, and more...
Does current precedent forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex-based stereotypes apply here?
Plus: closing the border is bad for U.S. "profits" and Jesse Singal on left-wing identitarianism.
In some states, a marijuana conviction can exclude you from the newly legal industry.
Making low-skill workers more expensive means getting them replaced by automation.
For his new book, Timothy Carney toured parts of the country that are working and parts that are not. What he found is deeply disturbing.
But don't believe the dire diagnosis. New research shows a mixed bag of pay patterns for women-and men-over the past 50 years.
A state supreme court ruling jeopardizes the very idea of independent contractors in several trades.
City officials seem dedicated to driving away the businesses that create prosperity.
Can't get work? Trim hedges for the government!
"The rise of the Nordic welfare state has been a double-edged sword" for women's professional progress.
Lower courts are split on whether sex-based protections cover orientation.
Expensive high-speed internet and job training won't transform Appalachia into "Silicon Holler."
The war on immigration has taken a great toll on unauthorized aliens, its targets. But it is also badly affecting Americans themselves, its intended beneficiaries.
Whether automation produces net job losses depends on the relative sizes of its job-creation and job-destruction effects.
The overreaction to critiques of diversity methods ramps up the culture war unnecessarily.
How flag-waving nationalism provides cover for a destructive economic policy.
A new study reminds us that the law of supply and demand still applies to labor
Many technologists think so, but economists aren't so easily convinced.
If companies can't hire foreign techies in the U.S., they'll flee to where they can.
British citizens are asking their government to "make it illegal for a company to require women to wear high heels at work."
People used to chase economic opportunity across the country. Then the government got in the way.
Unintended consequences of local and state policies are a huge barrier to mobility.
Laws that force individuals into unwanted business relationships are unjust.
The former 'Dirty Jobs' host makes a successful leap from cable television to social media stardom.
Seattle city council seeks to micromanage workers' schedules.
New York court rules aren't independent contractors, despite facts that could also point to "contrary result."
Judge smacks down EEOC attempt to apply federal civil rights law against funeral home.
Sixteen states require hair braiders to get cosmetology licenses, which cost hundreds to thousands of dollars and require at least 1,000 hours of training.
In a 33-country study, the pay gap between men and women working the same jobs was just 1.6 percent.
Market pressures were already making wages more competitive.
Three-hundred hours of classes "on the theory and practice of shampooing?" And that's just the start....
A week to try to help ex-prisoners return to communities follows years of relentlessly putting them away.
Austria gives women generous maternity benefits while shuffling them into the pink ghetto.
"Paid parental leave isn't just a nice thing to do, it's the smart thing to do for our business."
Exemptions to minimum wage laws give labor power at the expense of their own members.
Do women still earn just 79 percent of every dollar men make? A look at what's really going on with the gender wage gap
Is Donald Trump ever right about anything?
States that rank well for female leadership and entrepreneurship often rank poorly for things like female labor-force participation and poverty levels, and vice versa.
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