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Reforming Licenses: A COVID-19 Prescription for States

by C. Jarrett Dieterle, Shoshana Weissmann
April 21, 2020
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issues: Finance and Trade, Healthier Communities, Occupational Licensing, South, State Policy, Thriving Families
originally published in Inside Sources

A poor, little-educated Louisiana woman, who earned a modest living making beautiful arrangements for a local grocery store, lost her only means of income after failing to pass the state’s arbitrary and subjective exam.

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