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This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 24th

by Shoshana Weissmann
June 26, 2020
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issues: Competition Policy, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Education, Housing, Jobs, Occupational Licensing, Occupational Licensing, Policing, Reentry
originally published in Captured Economy
From Captured Economy:

Shoshana Weissmann writes in a Washington Examiner opinion piece that its often easier to lose a cosmetology license than it is to lose the ability to be a police officer. She also highlights a shocking disparity in training between police officers and other occupations.

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