One-in-five Americans need to get a government license in order to do their jobs. While supporters often claim licensing is important for health and safety or critical to ensuring high-quality ...

The House Commerce Committee approved occupational licensing reforms designed to help previously incarcerated individuals and improve the licensing process. Committee members unanimously approved ...

The stated purpose of occupational licensing is to protect consumers. But, in practice, the very legislation intended to protect consumers enables licensed industries to systematically fleece ...

There isn't much that Americans agree on these days, but one of the few issues that brings most of us together is the no-brainer effort to reform the tangle of occupational licensing rules that are ...

American policymakers are approaching cross-ideological consensus about the use and abuse of occupational licensing. Occupational licensing is a kind of labor regulation that has spread across America ...

Arizona recently became the first state to recognize other states’ occupational licenses. This reform will help Arizona’s economy, consumers, and licensed workers across the country. Other states ...

On Friday, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order that aims to promote competition in the U.S. economy. The White House says the order is designed to increase consumer protections, ...

In Illinois, nearly 1 in 4 workers requires an occupational license to perform more than 100 different professions. That includes barbers, hair braiders, interior ...