Occupational Licensing

News and Commentary Last month, President Trump joined the long list public officials from both parties calling for licensure reform.  In doing so, he said that the required training to [...]

News and Commentary After a stint being homeless himself, Juan Carlos Montes de Oca learned cosmetology and began offering haircuts to homeless people who might otherwise go unkempt.  All that [...]

News and Commentary What do Andrew Yang, Ivanka Trump, and Obama's economists all have in common?  Other than a passion for mathematics, they all oppose excessive occupational licensing.  An article [...]

Rent Check Today would have been Milton Friedman's 107th birthday.  One year ago, Dan wrote a post outlining Friedman's critiques of occupational licensing; the argument is as timely today as [...]

On Monday, the Utah Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional an attempt to limit malpractice suits by the state's medical board. Given this naked defense of doctors’ interests at the [...]

News and Commentary Andrew Yang wants to take a page from Arizona and Pennsylvania by increasing the probability of occupational licensing through broader recognition of out-of-state licenses. While he's not [...]

News and Commentary The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs now requires certified professional midwives to be licensed starting August 1st. Nurse midwives, who are licensed separately, will only [...]

News and Commentary There's nothing funny about occupational licensing, except for this Reason TV song parody by Remy. Reason Foundation's Adrian Moore criticizes Florida's current occupational licensing regime, arguing that [...]

News and Commentary The "Arizona model" of universal licensing reciprocity is catching on. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law a bill that allows professionals licensed in another state to [...]

News and Commentary Due to a failure to pass a teaching licensing exam on the part of many teachers, Jackson Public School District in Mississippi, which faces a teacher shortage, [...]