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RubberDuckQuack t1_ja6h8o9 wrote

Reply to comment by tildenpark in [OC] License to work? States ranked by number of low-income jobs requiring licenses by tildenpark

Very interesting. There are a few professions there which surprised me by only requiring licenses in a few states (Security Guard? Bartender?) and others that surprised me in that they needed a license at all (Florist lol).

I wonder what classifies as a "license" in the first place. Is a brief course proving you can competently serve (i.e. not over-serve) alcohol a "license" to a bartender? Because we have a brief test in my province in Canada for anyone who will work with alcohol, but I'm not sure I'd classify it as a "license", but at the same time you can't do the job without it.

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DM-me-ur-tits-plz- t1_ja6o2us wrote

In some cases license is just paying a small fee to get added to your local government's registry.

In others it's a more extensive training/certification process (truck drivers, for example, have to pass a specialized driving test).

Varies pretty widely. I doubt the one state that licenses florists is putting them through any course and/or test.

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RubberDuckQuack t1_ja6qdr1 wrote

Ah. Difficult to draw concrete conclusions about "licensing unfairly harms poor people" if e.g. Texas requires barbers simply notify them that they're barbering and California requires that they take a 4-year college program prior to barbering, but it's still useful as an approximation I'm sure.

Interesting how Louisiana (and a lot of other southern states) rank so highly, as I don't really imagine them as being big on government regulation. I wonder if maybe that is a result of old regulations that were once used to keep out specific groups of people.

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brothurbilo t1_ja80ccx wrote

louisiana has a liscense for damn near everything. Some of them I agree with though. Bartenders are one and our state's culture with alcohol is so lax that it does get hazy on who is legal to serve to and who isn't.

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brothurbilo t1_ja7zzy1 wrote

I'm in Louisiana and was a bartender in college. We had to take a one day class and take a test to legally bartend. Basically so we knew laws about who can and can't be served alcohol. The one that threw me off is that a 16 year old can drink alcohol if he is at a table with his parents. That's for restaurants though not bars I believe.

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