Should You Need the Government's Permission to Work?

http://ij.org/licensetowork

License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing is the first national study to measure how burdensome occupational licensing laws are for lower-income workers and aspiring entrepreneurs.

The report documents the license requirements for 102 low- and moderate-income occupations—such as barber, massage therapist and preschool teacher—across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It finds that occupational licensing is not only widespread, but also overly burdensome and frequently irrational.

On average, these licenses force aspiring workers to spend nine months in education or training, pass one exam and pay more than $200 in fees. One third of the licenses take more than a year to earn. At least one exam is required for 79 of the occupations.

Barriers like these make it harder for people to find jobs and build new businesses that create jobs, particularly minorities, those of lesser means and those with less education.

License to Work recommends reducing or removing needless licensing barriers. The report's rankings of states and occupations by severity of licensure burdens make it easy to compare laws and identify those most in need of reform.

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[ouztsie123]

Government needs to get OUT of our lives.

[RodCornholio]

Government force hurts people.

[Yang Yin]

Government shouldn't carry anyone cradle to grave if they can't even pay for health insurance yet can still pay for weapons of mass genocide.

[vaw32]

This is government a gone a mock....

[812b4]

You must be a union worker or maybe even a union official.

[LibertarianUSA1982]

I love how the government gets into all out lives. Both parties are guilty

[mellovesMJ4life]

it is true. My Mother has a License for a medical assistant, and that took her very little to study.

but she now is a cosmetologist and she went to study for about 2 and a half years. fucking logic.

[goose1077]

The worst scenario you can come up with for an anarchist society is that a government may develop. So, your solution is to form a government on purpose.

[Rustedblade]

sorry., as a reformed anarchist I simply cannot agree. An anarchist society is no less despotic., I dont fancy repeating the war of the roses

[goose1077]

Agreed the state is evil. Minarchy leads to despotism. Anarchy is the solution. The state is not necessary at all. Everything the state does, private parties can do better or it's not needed.

[Rustedblade]

sadly government is a necessary evil., but a minarchy would suffice