18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress
Stop federally funded programs from locking qualified licensees out of work
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Printed page 606 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies
“Congress should ensure that well-qualified licensees are not locked out of the job market by restrictive government programs funded by the federal government.”
What has happened
- Not started
Congress has enacted nothing to stop federally funded programs from locking well-qualified licensees out of the job market, and no bill of the 119th Congress addresses it.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the occupational licensing asks.
- The ask is written broadly enough that almost any workforce deregulation could be claimed for it; under §3b’s “progress is measured on this ask” rule nothing generic is counted. The concrete federal actions in the window that touch licensing — the Wagner-Peyser staffing rule (#1669) and Executive Order 14278’s alternative-credentials study — are about who staffs public employment offices and about federal workforce programs, not about licensees being excluded from work.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Federally funded restrictive occupational programs
- ID
- 1668