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621. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 00:55:15
Publish Date: 2025-02-07 11:00:00
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Licensing began with medicine and law; now it extends to 20 percent of the U.S. workforce, including hair stylists and auctioneers. In a new book, the legal scholar Rebecca Allensworth calls licensing boards “a thicket of self-dealing and ineptitude” and says they keep bad workers in their jobs and good ones out — while failing to protect the public.

 

 

 
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