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

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

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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