How regulatory expansion cuts off opportunity for less-educated workers.

It turns out yet another pillar of blue model labor economics—onerous occupational licensing rules—hit youth hardest.

Nebraska’s state government has taken a modest but meaningful step to curb runaway credentialism.

One defining characteristic of decaying blue model institutions is that they serve insiders well, while making it harder for striving outsiders trying to climb the ladder.

One of the more insidious ways that insiders have rigged the economy against less-skilled workers over the past generation is by imposing licensing requirements for working class jobs.

The explosion of occupational licensing requirements have raised prices and squelched opportunities for less credentialed workers.

The Texas Supreme Court struck down a burdensome state licensing law. Let’s hope more states shed licensing laws, and soon.

The medical board in Texas is restricting telemedicine even further. When medical guilds succeed in stopping innovation, America loses.

An entrepreneur won an important victory against crony capitalism in Kentucky this year, the first of its kind in a long while. Here’s to more of the same in 2015.

Licensing regulations are keeping small businesses down and entrepreneurs out of important sectors. We need to grease the wheels of the service economy, not erect barriers in front of it.