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150% Having a job — any job — is connected to lower poverty, better income mobility, lower crime rates, fewer children born out-of-wedlock and a host of other positive results. But today the right to earn a living is becoming more difficult. In 1950, only around 5 percent of workers needed an occupational license – today, more than 20 percent of workers in Michigan are required to have this special government permission to work. Licensing requirements typically include mandated educational degrees, hours of training, upfront fees, testing, continuing education and more. But reform may b...
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Occupational Licensing Reform Down South SHARE Two years ago, I wrote about a constitutional challenge to Mississippi’s absurd eyebrow‐threading licensing requirement, filed by the Mississippi Justice Institute. It’s cases like these that motivated me to serve as the chairman of the board of advisors for MJI, and as an honorary fellow for its parent think tank, the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. That and the chance to attend Ole Miss football games, of course. I’m happy to report that the eyebrow threading case has resulted in legislative success–on Friday, Gov. Ta...
In a recent town hall event in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden In new research for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, we uncover much about one contributing cause: the little-understood relationship between occupational licensing and student loan debt. Reforming licensing laws could diminish the need for more extreme measures that would provide welfare for the wealthy and endanger the foundation of the student loan system. Workers who hold occupational licenses are about 10 percentage points more likely to have borrowed for their college education than those without licenses. Th...