COVID-19 revealed severe issues in the U.S. health care system, including the distribution of health care professionals and the restrictions we put on those professionals. The report calls for a…
It seems as if city officials might be trying to interfere with their business model so as to make the things infeasible. If so, it would be a passive-aggressive de facto…
Episode 22 of the Head Locke podcast – a discussion on barriers to work with special guest, summer intern Carter Woolly. Article I, Section 1 of the N.C. Constitution declares…
Research shows that licensing's many burdens are especially difficult for the poor, the less educated, minorities, mothers returning to the workforce, relocated military families, older workers seeking a new career,…
Putting it all together, Kleiner estimated that occupational licensing has left us with 2.85 million fewer jobs, the consequence being an annual cost to consumers of $203 billion (that's annually,…
This issue of interstate migration, especially regarding military spouses who frequently change residencies, is just one of the many negative unintended consequences of a strict licensing regime.
George Leef focuses on the ills of occupational licensing restrictions in his latest Forbes column. Millions of Americans are shut out of jobs they could do because of occupational licensing…
It could well be that stricter licensing of security guards yields better quality security guards. At the same time, by the effect of licensing limiting the supply of security guards,…
That’s the premise of a typically hard-hitting column by Walter Williams that recently appeared in the Casper Star Tribune: The president of the NAACP’s St. Louis chapter, Adolphus Pruitt, has petitioned a…
Talk about barrier to entry! In 2015, certificate of need (CON) application costs totaled just under $1.5 million. Fees for health care project proposals such as building adult care home…
Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a new report detailing the negative consequences tied to overly stringent occupational licensing. Occupational licensing laws kill jobs and shut entrepreneurs with…
This would be welcome news, for reasons I’ve made explicit in newsletters and reports. Per NC Capitol Connection: A state legislative subcommittee approved draft legislation Thursday that would dissolve 15…