What needs to be licensed?
"The breadth of jobs is remarkable. Travel and tourist guides, funeral attendants, home-entertainment installers, florists, makeup artists, even interpreters for the deaf are all regulated by various states. Want to work as an alarm installer? In 35 states, you will need to earn the government's permission. Are you skilled in handling animals? You will need more than that skill in the 20 states that require a license for animal training.
There's usually more to these licenses than filling out some paperwork and paying a small fee. Most come with government-dictated educational requirements, examinations, minimum age and grade levels, and other hurdles."
"To work as a manicurist requires only about 12 hours worth of training in Alaska and 40 in Iowa, but 600 hours in Oregon and 700 in Alabama."
"Mr. Kleiner compared consumer complaints between Minnesota and Wisconsin in certain health-care occupations and found no differences in the number of complaints between tightly regulated Wisconsin and less-regulated Minnesota."
"In North Carolina, for example, the 2011 legislative session included efforts to regulate naturopaths, pedorthists (people who fit orthotics), community-association managers and even music therapists. After all, as the latter, still-pending bill's introduction states: "The North Carolina Music Therapy Practice Act is established to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare . . .""
"Had Florida's legislature stood firm, Floridians might have enjoyed benefits similar to those Mississippians experienced when their state replaced its cosmetology requirement for hair braiders with a modest registration requirement: After the market was opened in 2005, 300 new braiders registered with the state and can now provide for themselves and their families.
Some of those 300 moved to Mississippi from neighboring states where braiding is still onerously regulated."
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