NCSL EXPERTISE.

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"The accelerating diffusion of licensing requirements around the country has created additional challenges for certain populations to enter the job market." Albert Downs on how states are looking to reform licensing requirements as part of an NCSL project to improve occupational licensing, in the Washington Examiner.

"States have been widely different in their approach to how much employees pay." Richard Cauchi on the differences among states in how much their employees pay for health insurance premiums, in Governing.

"It is exceptionally uncommon to change the retirement formula used to calculate pensions after a person has retired, and that's whether the retiree is a state employee, a teacher or a state legislator." Luke Martel on a Kentucky plan to change the public...