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Emancipate the Workers, State by State
March 3, 2020
originally published in
American Institute for Economic Research
Faced in part with this competition from Arizona, other states are finally getting serious about reforming their own occupational-licensing requirements. Over at the Washington Examiner, R Street’s Shoshana Weissmann and Jarrett Dieterle write that many other states are following in Arizona’s footsteps, as evidenced by the fact that in 2020 alone “universal recognition bills are being pursued in Virginia, West Virginia, California, Ohio, Missouri, Georgia, New Hampshire, Indiana, and New Jersey.”
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