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The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong

By Rebecca Haw Allensworth
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By Rebecca Haw Allensworth
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A bottom-up investigation of the broken system of professional licensing, affecting everyone from hairdressers and morticians to doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, and those who rely on their services.

Tens of millions of US workers are required by law to have a license to do their jobs—about twice as many as are in unions. The requirements are set by over 1,500 industry-specific licensing boards, staffed mainly by volunteers from the industries they regulate. These boards have enormous p...

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