State and local licensing requirement for jobs such as cosmetology. Labor secretary Alexander Acosta said lawmakers should work to get rid of unnecessary state licenses. This event just getting underway. Live coverage on cspan2. This project launched in 2016. To foster a conversation around regulatory excess and the harm it causes. They consist of 12 working groups, each composed of experts in specific fields of regulatory law and policy ranging from environmental and energy to race and trade in june of this year from each of the working groups started to release their papers, podcast and videos which among other things can be found on our website, which is a great project. Org. I invite you all to visit the website. Todays panel is the first of these conversations for the antitrust Consumer Protection working group and is devoted to occupational licensing and other restraints on competition. I am now going to turn it over to my comoderator and our hosts were today, lisa kimmel. Thank
Oumsoumsal licensing for jobs such as cosmotology. And teachers. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Get started. Im happy to see some familiar faces in the audience. For those who dont know me, y name is koren. Im going to pause for a minute. We also have people joining us online. Thats what youre hearing. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. It is a privilege for me to be here today in my capacity as coalong with josh right of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working Group Transparency project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the regular excess and the harms it causes. Working ts of 12 groups. Policy ranging from Environmental Energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups started to release various issue papers, podcasts and short video crows which among other things can be found on our website which s reg product. Org. Todays spaniel the first of these conversations for the antitrust