Occupational licensing drains workers—and state governments

Partisanship might be driving congressional dysfunction in Washington, but in the states, Republican and Democratic governors alike are working on the same regulatory issue: occupational licensing.
In mid-October, Florida governor Ron DeSantis joined several other governors, including Doug Ducey of Arizona, Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf and Colorado’s Jared Polis, in pursuing reforms to state-level occupational licensing laws in 2019. This bipartisan effort to reform these laws will help g