26. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?

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Feb 7, 202500:55:15Society & Culture

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 o...

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