016 Top Priority Podcast | Occupational Licensing
Show: 016 Top Priority Podcast | Occupational Licensing
Date Recorded: December 16, 2019
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Erica Jedynak, Director of Employment Initiatives, Stand Together
Austen Bannan Senior Policy Analyst of Employment Policy, Americans for Prosperity
Show Notes & Timestamps
- What is Occupational Licensing and why is it an issue on which our Stand Together Community engages? min [4:15]
- How some occupational licenses actually prop-up special interests and create a two-tired society. min [9:08]
- How our Community views Occupational Licensing through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [17:20]
- What are viable alternatives to Occupational Licenses to keep people safe? min [23:25]
- How our Community views Occupational Licensing through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [29:20]
- How Occupational Licensing props up cronyism and what is cronyism? min [41:47]
- How our Community views Occupational Licensing through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [42:27]
- Certificate of Need keeping people from accessing quality, affordable health care. min [48:08]
- How Government uses Occupational Licensing against people—including doing math without a license. min [49:50]
- How our Community views Occupational Licensing through the lens of the fourth mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [53:20]
**Additional Resource**
- Reclaiming the American Dream: The Role of Private Individuals and Voluntary Associations by Richard Cornuelle
- “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” —Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
- District Works is a coalition of small business owners, nonprofits, and community members striving to make it cheaper, faster, and simpler to start a business in D.C.