Raleigh attorney Gene Boyce told Carolina Journal that his efforts to get the courts to rule on a dispute he is having with the North Carolina State Bar, the state agency that regulates attorneys, is important because it has implications for other licensing boards and the occupations they regulate.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here's one of those statements that seems like it can't be true and yet is firmly supported by the evidence: Americans don't move around as much as they used to.
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 @ 4:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government regulation is a subject as dry as the desert sands to most people.
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A legislative oversight committee decided on Tuesday to delay a push to eliminate and consolidate a number of occupational licensing boards.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 @ 3:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tour guides in Charleston, S.C., face arrest if they are not licensed by the city to share the town’s history with visitors
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 11:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Virginia may advance reforms in its Certificate of Public Need licensing laws for medical services as early as this week, if a bill removing anti-competition rules for hospitals passes the state’s House, making it eligible for consideration by the Senate.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 3:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week I had the honor of speaking in favor of occupational licensing reform before a legislative oversight committee (you can view my presentation here)...
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 5:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The case for significantly curtailing occupational licensing in North Carolina and elsewhere recently got a major boost from an unexpected source: the White House.
Published: Wednesday, August 12th, 2015 @ 6:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A state senator has taken up the cause of a North Carolina woman who left the state to earn a master's degree in counseling at a Seattle college, then returned only to be told by the state licensing board that she couldn't practice her profession because the school she attended didn't have the pro
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 8:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court today vacated a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgment that had allowed the city of Norfolk, Va. to suppress a banner protesting the government's illegal attempt to seize private property by eminent domain....
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 4:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina requires occupational licensing for more than 700 professions, which generates an absurd amount of bureaucracy and red tape. Occupational licensing forces people to pay a fee, and often go through needless additional training, in order to legally practice their profession in the state
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina could promote job creation, lower consumer prices, and boost opportunities for low-income families by replacing most of the state's occupational licensing with voluntary certification. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report explains why.
Published: Sunday, April 12th, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Suppose there was an academic center focused on issues of poverty, work, and opportunity. Suppose this center pledged to "examine innovative and practical ideas" for moving people out of poverty. Suppose its leadership was interested not in raising their own profiles, but in honestly upholding...
Published: Sunday, March 29th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A U.S. Supreme Court decision that many opponents of restrictive occupational licensing rules saw as a victory for small-scale entrepreneurs may wind up being a setback, as the General Assembly's Program Evaluation Division wants to create an Occupational Licensing Commission to supervise...
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Late last year an audit of the State Board of Opticians determined that the board "will lack adequate funds to continue operating within the next year" and that, despite cost-cutting measures already undertaken, soon "will no longer be able to provide the licensing services and practitioner...
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 6:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new audit says that the State Board of Opticians is in financial straits and won't have enough money to continue operating without changes.
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What can be done to help the poor is a perennial issue in politics, and with it comes what is to me a real puzzler. Why do those who seem most adamant that government programs are the best way to serve the needs of the poor also seem the least interested in whether those programs actually work?
Published: Monday, December 8th, 2014 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Supreme Court has taken up a North Carolina case that could have far-reaching impacts on state licensure. Given that occupational licensing is a modern-day guild system making it harder for people to find work - or find workers - that would be an effect greatly to be wished.
Published: Saturday, November 1st, 2014 @ 4:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Supreme Court has taken up a North Carolina case that could have far-reaching impacts on state licensure. Given that occupational licensing is a modern-day guild system making it harder for people to find work – or find workers – that would be an effect greatly to be wished.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 1:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the most consistent findings in economic research is that occupational licensing restricts the supply of service providers in the licensed field and thereby drives up prices.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although some young Americans graduate from high school with superb academic skills, a great many leave high school with pathetic abilities in crucial areas: reading, writing, basic math, and reasoning. One of the key reasons why that's so is that many of their teachers are not very good themselves.
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 1:04 am
By: John William Pope Center
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If you want a better understanding of why politicians do what they do, you have to look underneath the surface. You can't just accept what...
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Occupational licensing has been a frequent target for our Bad Bill of the Week series, so it's not surprising that we didn't have to wait long into the 2013 General Assembly Session for a burdensome licensing bill to be filed in the General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina features over 50 occupational licensing boards. The state licenses more occupations than most other states and is one of the more aggressive in licensing jobs for the poor or less educated.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 3:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's aggressive approach to occupational licensing raises prices and protects current members of a profession more than it protects consumers.
Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The overthrow of the medieval guild system," wrote Milton Friedman in his seminal work Capitalism and Freedom, "was an indispensable early step in the rise of freedom in the Western world.
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The specter of occupational licensing is once again growing in North Carolina, threatening to make it harder for people to find work. In this case the culprit is SB 447, a bill that would dramatically increase the licensing and regulation of landscape contractors in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2012 @ 3:34 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina ranks 29th of the 50 U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia) when it comes to imposing laws requiring people wishing to perform certain occupations to get a license from the government, according to a new study by Institute for Justice.
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2012 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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But both North Carolinians found that they had run afoul of one of the most widespread yet least-discussed barriers to creating jobs and pursing one's dreams: occupational licensing.
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2012 @ 4:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This article is the first installment of a three-part series examining the practice of occupational licensing in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 11th, 2012 @ 1:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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