Make Pandemic-Related Occupational License Reform Permanent
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.
Most serious approaches to the crisis, however, are decidedly libertarian. They involve reducing regulations that keep industries from responding rapidly in an emergency situation.
"You cannot just decide you want to sell groceries," said Barbara Ferrer, the director of L.A. County Public Health.
It's time to free midwives from excessive regulation and make room for more home births.
Mississippi has a reputation for being one of the most obese states in the nation, as well as having one of America's highest incarceration rates. Neither will be improved by treating unlicensed dieticians like serious criminals.
Mats Järlström's research never would have seen the light of day if the Oregon Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying had its way.
Adult performers are outraged at the proposed licensing requirements, and have vowed to fight the bill.
The real motive for laws like this has nothing to do with scissors and glue. It's all about protectionism.
Undercover sheriff's deputies posing as homeowners hired handymen to paint, install recessed lighting, or do other tasks that require licenses. Then they arrested them.
People who want to work should be allowed to work.
Right now, most licensing boards require that the majority of members be from the same licensed profession. It's not difficult to see how that leads to anti-competitive rules.
High permit fees and unprepared bureaucrats get in the way of delicious street tacos and bacon dogs.
"Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."
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.
The case is a bizarre example of occupational licensing woes and backward regulations.
Ontario has lost millions trying to sell cannabis.
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Licensing reform efforts cross partisan barriers. Unfortunately, so do efforts to cripple opportunity and prosperity.
The Democratic presidential candidate is the latest example that occupational licensing is truly a bipartisan battle.
No diploma, no making money telling people how to eat better.
Previously, hair braiders were required to spend 1,500 hours taking cosmetology classes.
Bar exams should be abolished. But if that's not feasible, this modest proposal for exam reform should help restore them to their former glory!
Gov. Tom Wolf just signed a bill to recognize occupational licenses obtained in different parts of the country.
To state Rep. Jillian Gilchrest, “Raising women up” apparently means depriving them of employment opportunities.
Those claiming that elevators are a public safety risk likely have ulterior motives.
Polis vetoed licensing requirements for HOA managers, sports agents, and genetic counselors. That's not sitting well with some members of his own party.
A Savannah, Georgia, law that required testing and licensing of tour guides is found unconstitutional.
State-level licensing laws can make it nearly impossible for workers to move from place to place, and that's a particular problem for military spouses. This bipartisan proposal could be a step towards fixing it.
Gov. Kevin Stitt is expected to sign a bill removing so-called "good character" provisions from all Oklahoma's occupational licensing laws.
"Kids like Brendan Mulvaney are trying to give people sweet lemonade and learn some important business skills but the overzealous state bureaucrats just keep giving taxpayers lemons."
Another victory for licensing reform in the Grand Canyon State.
If anything, he's understating how ridiculous they are.
"Arizonans who have recently moved here will be able to put their skills to work faster and without all the red tape," says Gov. Doug Ducey.
When "somebody packs up that moving van in Chicago, Illinois, they don't lose their skills on the way to the state of Arizona," says Gov. Doug Ducey.
Krueger's work included highlighting the breadth of licensing in American labor markers, and the economic costs of mandatory government permission slips.
Texas barbers and cosmetologists turn to fearmongering.
New proposal from Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Elizabeth Warren would stop states from using the dumbest of all reasons to keep someone out of work.
Licensing laws tend to lock workers in place, but Gov. Doug Ducey says it's time to stop that foolishness.
Occupational licensing programs deprive people of livelihoods and often don't improve public health.
State lawmakers target pet groomers, drain cleaners, interior designers, pecan buyers, athletic trainers, antler dealers, and....art therapists?
A new law in Ohio and an executive order in Idaho require state lawmakers to take a more active role in overseeing occupational licensing boards.