NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks to Marinelle Reynolds, a licensed social worker, about President Biden's executive order regarding occupational licensing and how it may affect military families. On ...

One military family advocate claims the rewritten law could result in exclusion from protection under the act for military ...

Many states are taking aim at occupational licensing in the tight labor market. Not everybody is happy about it. Here's what businesses need to know. A group of music therapists in Washington State ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ASPIRE (Alliance for States Providing Interoperable Reciprocity) coalition of non-profit and private sector organizations including Blue Star Families, The National ...

Occupational licenses, government permission slips, are viewed as tools that provide consumer protection because they are believed to weed out those who are not qualified for a particular occupation ...

One-in-five Americans need to get a government license in order to do their jobs. While supporters often claim licensing is important for health and safety or critical to ensuring high-quality ...

American policymakers are approaching cross-ideological consensus about the use and abuse of occupational licensing. Occupational licensing is a kind of labor regulation that has spread across America ...

Occupational licensing involves government-imposed requirements for practitioners in different professions, or what critics call government permission slips to work. Despite a lack of evidence of ...