Licensing regulations can be especially burdensome for low-income immigrants that might’ve been barbers, etc. their whole life but they don’t have the income to pay $300 for some annual license fee and go through months/years of training/school as some apprentice barber.

A lot of licensing regulations (even for jobs where some sort of licensing/standards should be necessary) are created to be unreasonably burdensome by groups/trade associations that want to restrict the number (and therefore competition) of barbers, manicurists, florists, etc.

It’s very interesting that licensing reform is an issue that both progressives and free-market conservatives/libertarians tend to agree on.