Occupational Licensing

New Research  In Tennessee, a new state law that provides an alternative to the traditional licensing regulations has upset some of the industry's professionals but finds support from others who [...]

News and Commentary James Robertson of Empower Mississippi has a column about a new state law called the Fresh Start Act, that will make it easier for formerly incarcerated people to [...]

News and Commentary The American Association of Family Physicians has released a letter  in opposition to a recent White House proposal that seeks to eliminate supervision requirements and equalize payments between [...]

News and Commentary Olivia Campbell has an article in JSTOR Daily that outlines how a nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising that was meant to protect consumers inadvertently hurt women. From Philadelphia, [...]

News and Commentary John Hendrickson and Laura Ebke have an article in Caffeinated Thoughts urging the state of Iowa to reform their occupation licensing laws to reduce barriers to entry in the [...]

News and Commentary An article in Medscape reveals an odd phenomenon where advanced practitioners who bill for medical services under a physician's name aren't recorded in the nation's medical database, [...]

News and Commentary Arizona just legalized blow-drying, shampooing, and styling hair without a license.  While this does not fully eliminate the state's cosmetology license.  It will mean that make-up artists [...]

News and Commentary President of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners lays out the gamut of the potential scope of practice reforms.  Looking across regimes, states with restrictive laws tend [...]

News and Commentary The Democratic primary has almost exclusively focused on the demand side of America's health care problems to the determined of other solutions to bring down costs and [...]

News and Commentary The Institute for Justice released a series of videos explaining the problems with occupational licensing.  These videos elicited a knee-jerk response from Think Progress.  The author,  Josh Israel, [...]