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Occupational hazards: How excessive licensing hurts small business
Sept 14, 2018
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House Small Business Committee
“Occupational licensure acts as a formidable barrier to entry for low- and middle-income Americans seeking to enter new professions,” said C. Jarrett Dieterle, Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington, DC. “The result is a government-imposed barrier that arbitrarily limits Americans’ ability to work and climb the income ladder to more prosperity.”
See Jarrett’s testimony below:
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