Depending upon where you live and what you do for a living, state or local laws may require you to get a license to operate in your chosen field. A research brief released last week by the Cato Institute found that while such occupational licensing laws raise wages in affected industries, they also depress wages […]
People took sides over the COVID-19 lockdowns, but the pandemic proved one thing for certain: Workers can thrive without regular, in-person supervision. Yet, the Mississippi Real Estate Commission has failed to keep up. Despite overwhelming evidence from nearly every industry, the government commission clings to an old, unwritten policy that requires real estate agents to […]
Three years after New York legalized marijuana, unauthorized pot shops outnumber licensed retailers by more than 20 to 1. Legislators and regulators could have avoided this “disaster,” as Gov. Kathy Hochul rightly calls it, if they had learned from the mistakes of other states that have struggled to displace the black market. Disregarding those lessons, […]