The Robot Will See You Now
Previously, we have written about the potential for software programs to replace lawyers in providing some (but not all) of the services lawyers traditionally provide. In a post for the [...]
Teacher Quality and Licensing Exams
Elementary and secondary school teachers across the nation must take a licensing exam in relevant subject areas to verify they are qualified to teach in a given state. However, pass [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, February 28th
News and Commentary The North Dakota State Senate unanimously passed a bill that gives gives licensing reciprocity to military spouses moving to the state. The Cato Institute's Ilya Shapiro and [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, February 21st
Rent Check Texas and Iowa are the latest states to begin issuing privileges under the interstate Physical Therapy Compact. Compacts (agreements between individual states that allow licensed workers to move between [...]
Physical Therapy Compact in Effect in Iowa, Texas
Interstate compacts for licensing, such as the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), are agreements between individual states that allow licensed workers to move between states with minimal (or no) requirements to [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, February 14th
Rent Check The Mercatus Center's Healthcare Openness and Access Project proposed three reforms to improve access in rural areas that are plagued by extreme doctor scarcity. Targeting scope-of-practice laws, restrictions [...]
Three Ways to Improve Rural Healthcare
As the “Medicare for All” movement gains momentum, discussions of incremental reform have been drowned out by calls for a more sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system. But proponents would [...]
How Distrust Breeds Dysfunction
America’s current governing system, created after the 1960s, dictates governing choices out of a huge legal machine, programmed with about 150 million words of federal law. Its one virtue, at [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, February 6th
Rent Check Connecticut is the only state in the nation that doesn't require licensing for estheticians, eyelash technicians and nail technicians, but a new bill would introduce such a requirement. The [...]
Possibility, Probability, Prostitution, and Occupational Licensing
From slipping and falling in the bathroom to being hit by a motorist crossing the street, I faced countless risks before even stepping into the office this morning. But I [...]