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Podcast: The Conservatarians Episode #180 with Shoshana Weissmann
April 8, 2020
originally published in
The Conservatarians
Shoshana is the Senior Manager of Digital Media and a Policy Fellow at the R Street Institute in Washington DC — and a dominant presence on Twitter. She focuses on occupational licensing reform and has written for The Wall Street Journal and USA Today among others. Jon and Shoshana chat about dropping government restrictions all over the place, from localities and states all the way up to DC itself. We also talk about sloths.
Listen here.
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