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I would imagine that most of the unemployment is concentrated among the city's large black population, who are the exact people who would benefit most from liberalizing professions like cooks and hairdressers (which, in the black community, have traditionally worked out of homes without licenses for decades).

If you eliminate licensing, you aren't going to increase the amount of hair to be dressed in the city, you're just going to either substitute one hairdresser for another, or you're going to increase the number of hairdressers but they will all be underemployed. Neither of these seems actually helpful.

by David desJardins on Dec 3, 2010 12:38 am • link • report

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