Adjusted for cost of living, Caliifornia has the highest poverty rates in the nation. Now, a potential bipartisan push against occupational licensing regimes may remove barriers to entrepreneurship for the poor. Steven Greenhut reports:
California’s Little Hoover Commission, an independent oversight agency, recently held a hearing in Sacramento to evaluate the situation. It eventually will make some recommendations to the Legislature. Panelists pointed to the myriad inconsistencies and counterproductive elements in California’s array of occupational-licensing laws.
“In California, barbers and cosmetologists devote about one year to education or experience, and EMTs (emergency medical technicians) only one month,” explained (in prepared testimony) panelist Dick Carpenter, of the libertarian Institute for Justice. “Comparisons like these lead one to question the public safety rationale underlying licensure of many occupations in our sample.” California has some of the tightest restrictions in the country.
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