Americans are facing record unemployment, but a new law in Arizona is helping people get to work — and it’s having remarkable success.
Thanks to the Goldwater Institute’s Breaking Down Barriers to Work, more than 1,000 Arizonans have been able to continue their careers without having to tangle with costly and time-consuming red tape. A new series of reports from Goldwater Institute National Investigative Journalist Mark Flatten reveals just how successful this new law is and how individuals across the state have benefitted.
When the law was signed in 2019, Arizona became the first state in the country to universally recognize occupational licenses obtained in another state. At the core of this law is a commonsense idea: If you’ve gone through the time and training needed to do a particular job in one state, you shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to get a government permission slip just to be doing that same job when you move to a new state.
Read more about the law and how it’s helping Arizonans in this new report.
The number of hardworking Arizonans who have benefited from Breaking Down Barriers to Work is growing all the time. Here are a few of their stories.
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