Occupational licensing laws—those mandates that workers in hundreds of professions obtain a license before earning a living—lock people out of jobs while failing to make services any better. The ...

Burdensome occupational licensing laws often produce negative economic effects such as less competition and higher costs. Even worse, these onerous rules rarely yield better or safer services. In many ...

In the recently published book “Over Ruled,” Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his co-author Janie Nitze highlight several examples of instances where states and the federal government go too far ...

BOSTON - Massachusetts voters this November will have the chance to uncork a ballot question proposing the creation of a "wine at food store" license. If passed, approximately 1,000 of the state's ...