The top ten states with the worst licensure requirements

Published November 8, 2017 7:42pm ET



Bureaucratic red tape knows no party loyalties.

It doesn’t matter if a state’s legislature is majority conservative or liberal. It doesn’t matter how a state leans in presidential elections. If a state hosts onerous licensure requirements, it’s going to have fewer jobs.

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