occupational licensing

The life of a military family is something the vast majority of us will never experience or truly understand. There is worry over the safety of the husband or wife who’s serving. There are frequent moves, making it difficult to put down roots and establish relationships. If there are children,…

This issue is yet another obscure licensing turf war— and another indication that North Carolina needs to take bold action against its excessive occupational licensing. 

Should the bill become law, cities could no longer create new local occupational licenses for handyman services.

This kind of nonsense probably wouldn't happen so much if North Carolina learned from the state's stinging U.S. Supreme Court loss in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission (2015).

What would be the "Great" solution to the North Carolinian knot of occupational licensing? It's to go straight at it with a package of reforms in our Carolina Rebound report.

It’s the classic tale of government overstepping its bounds, making itself a burden to the very people it purports to help. A professional counselor in Virginia has been told by District of Columbia bureaucrats that she can’t offer online teletherapy to people who live right next door to her…

Universal license recognition is an idea that the North Carolina General Assembly has entertained but not yet adopted. Why not?

The state of Florida recently passed a revolutionary bill for workers and consumers. As Jon Sanders explains in his most recent research brief: Reason called it “the most sweeping occupational licensing reform in history.” The Institute for Justice said it “repeals more occupational licensing laws than any licensing…