{"id":9929,"date":"2015-08-04T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9929"},"modified":"2015-08-04T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:51:54","slug":"our-enemy-the-state-link-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/08\/our-enemy-the-state-link-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Enemy the State: Link Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cObama\u2019s Economics Team Is Taking on One of America\u2019s Most Underrated Economic Problems\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Occupational licensing<\/a> rules, which require government approval (typically by a state government) before a person can practice a given profession, are one of the most under-discussed aspects of the American labor market. A\u00a0new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers<\/a> argues that the way licensing is applied in practice often leads to higher prices, reduced opportunity, and more macroeconomic fragility.<\/p>\n

Regulating entry into certain kinds of professions on the grounds of health and safety makes sense, but once a process is set up to exclude people from doing a job, incumbent practitioners have a strong economic incentive to use the licensing board as a means to eliminate competition. Today, more than a quarter of American workers need a license to do their job, representing a fivefold increase relative to the 1950s. \u2026<\/p>\n

The report also notes that licensing has in some cases become a cudgel with which to punish the already disadvantaged. Over a dozen states have rules that can make non-payment of student loans into grounds for license revocation \u2014 turning state licensing boards into debt collectors. And rules barring people with felony convictions from obtaining licenses are widespread, which tends to exacerbate all the problems with racial and socioeconomic disparities in the criminal justice system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFor True Penal Reform, Focus on the Violent Offenders\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

In other words, for all the talk about nonviolent offenders, a majority of our prisoners have been convicted of a violent act, and even more have some history of violence. And because no one thinks we should set every drug or other nonviolent offender free, at some point we are going to have to reduce the punishments that violent offenders face if we really want to cut our breathtaking prison population down to size.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a> (and more<\/a>, on how the Bureau of Prisons could be doing a better job of implementing what we already have put in place)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Huge Cost of Free Parking\u201d<\/strong> (I censored the Voxier original title):<\/p>\n

\u2026But a strict requirement means that every building has to include parking whether residents want it or not. Typically, the cost of that parking then gets built into the rent. It might not seem like a big deal, but in Washington, DC, the underground spots many developers use to comply with these requirements each cost between $30,000 and $50,000<\/a> to build.<\/p>\n

This makes housing less affordable \u2014 especially for low-income residents who are least likely to own cars<\/a> in the first place. It also subsidizes driving, spurring further development that\u2019s based around the car, such as stores that provide free parking, effectively building its cost into the price of their goods.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst thing that many American cities have done, for low-income people, is create a world in which you need<\/em> a car,\u201d retired UCLA economist Donald Shoup told me in an interview last year<\/a>. \u201cParking pushes everything farther apart, and even if you\u2019re too poor to own a car, you have to pay for all the free parking you don\u2019t use.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a><\/p>\n

And, because there are other enemies than the state (although, as some of the links above show, corporate interests and big government are thoroughly intertwined), \u201cWhen Work Fails Families\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Here is what I know: this young, married father and his wife have done a lot of things right, at least by the standards of many conservatives. They graduated from high school, got married, and bore their children within marriage. They aren\u2019t \u201cliving off the government.\u201d The problem is not that they need to work longer hours, or have a better work ethic, or make more responsible choices about romantic partners and children. And yet, they are a couple hundred dollars short on their rent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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