Government Record · The White House; U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Economic Policy; Council of Economic Advisers; U.S. Department of Labor · July 2015

White House, Treasury, Council of Economic Advisers and Labor Department, July 2015: more than a quarter of U.S. workers now need a government license to do their jobs, up from under 5 percent in the 1950s.

More than one-quarter of U.S. workers now require a license to do their jobs, with most of these workers licensed by the States. The share of workers licensed at the State level has risen five-fold since the 1950s.

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