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It’s Becoming Easier to Get Permission to Work, But Not by Enough
July 25, 2022
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“Occupational licensing reform is having its moment,” Shoshana Weissmann wrote last November for the R Street Institute even before recent changes and new evidence that easing barriers to work improve prosperity and mobility. But as Americans struggle to start businesses and hire workers, reform should go past easing requirements that we get permission to work and entirely eliminate such rules.
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