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Occupational licensing is a state power, so the number of licensed occupations and specific requirements for each license vary by state. A new index from the Archbridge Institute makes an apples-to-apples comparison of the severity of U.S. state licensing restrictions. The map below groups the 50 states by quintiles, with the states in red having the most burdensome licensing regulations. The five states with the most licensing are Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oregon, and Alabama. The five states with the least licensing are Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Indiana, and New York.
Texas, the worst state for licensing, has 199 total barriers and 163 specific licenses. As a comparison, Kansas only has 136 barriers and 117 licenses. One of the occupations that requires a license in Texas but not Kansas is mold remediation worker. In fact, Texas is the only state in the country to require a license for that occupation. So, either the people of Texas know something the rest of us do not, or there is no need to require a license to work in mold remediation.
Read the full article at Forbes.
Read the 2024 State Occupational Licensing Index report here.
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