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Other states are loosening, cutting back on occupational licensing. Why not California?
They didn’t agree on a lot, however one coverage concern the place the Obama and Trump administrations agreed was the necessity for states to re-examine their techniques of occupational licensing.
Many states throughout the nation have heeded that decision and brought steps to do this. However not right here in California.
Final week, Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia signed a “Common Licensure Invoice” which is able to permit employees in 85 totally different occupational classes from anyplace within the nation who’ve been licensed to work in different state and have carried out licensed work for 3 years to work in Virginia with out having to undergo the headache of attempting to get licensed in Virginia as nicely. “Common license recognition will help in resolving employee shortages whereas on the similar time benefiting shoppers by means of decreased prices of products and companies,” mentioned Gov. Youngkin.
Likewise, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu final month referred to as for the elimination of licensing necessities for 34 occupations, reforms to state licensing boards and common recognition for employees already licensed out-of-state. This proposal was included as a part of Gov. Sununu’s price range proposal by which he affirmed a dedication to “breaking down regulatory boundaries, decreasing the price of entry to do enterprise right here.”
All of those states are following the lead of California’s neighbor, Arizona. In 2019, then-Gov. Doug Ducey signed into regulation, with bipartisan assist, laws implementing common occupational license recognition. Already, over 6,500 licensed employees from different states have taken the chance to get their licenses acknowledged in Arizona,
“Over 400 physicians and 170 doctor assistants have been safely licensed by the Arizona Medical Board,” famous the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute final month. “The state’s Registrar of Contractors has accepted over 2,200 licenses for quite a few occupations within the trades. 1000’s of further employees have benefitted from common recognition, together with a whole bunch of behavioral well being examiners and quite a few engineers, cosmetologists, and actual property brokers and brokers, amongst many others.”
A report by the Frequent Sense Institute estimated the regulation may gain advantage Arizona’s gross home product by not less than least $1.5 billion over time.
None of that is significantly earth-shattering. But it surely’s one thing that California continues to tug its ft on. California has lengthy had probably the most in depth and onerous licensing techniques within the nation, with predictable penalties.
Because the state’s personal nonpartisan Little Hoover Fee has famous, one-in-five California require a license to work. Licensing, in keeping with the fee, “slows development in these occupations, inhibits interstate motion, and acts as a barrier to many in search of upward job mobility.”
In 2018, the Institute for Justice estimated that California’s system of licensing prices the state 195,917 jobs and billions in decreased financial output and misallocated assets.That very same yr, the Archbridge Institute discovered that elevated authorities licensing of low- and middle-income jobs was related to decreased financial mobility and decreased job swimming pools.
California ought to on the very least undertake a complete assessment of which occupations are at present licensed by authorities boards. If there’s no severe public well being or security justification for licensing, the state ought to drop licensing necessities. If a employee is licensed out-of-state, it must be very easy for that employee to work right here. It’s a pro-worker, pro-consumer, pro-liberty method California may simply take if it wished to. Which implies…it in all probability gained’t occur for some time.
Sal Rodriguez could be reached at salrodriguez@scng.com
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California woman dies from Fresno County's first human case of rabies in more than 30 years
A California woman died of rabies after allegedly being bitten by a bat in her classroom, according to Fresno County health officials.
The woman, later identified as Leah Seneng, 60, marks the first human case of rabies in Fresno County since 1992.
“In general, rabies is a disease that affects the brain, and it is very rare. But when it develops, it can cause very serious consequences,” said Dr. Trnidad Solis, Fresno County Health Department’s deputy health officer. “It’s transmitted through saliva; it is not airborne.”
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Seneng, who was an art teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dos Palos, was bitten by the bat when she was attempting to rescue it in her classroom, local outlet ABC30 reported.
She first came into contact with the bat in October, but did not display symptoms until approximately a month later, according to Fresno County health officials. She was admitted to the hospital and died four days later.
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“The most frequent route of transmission is through the bite of an animal that has rabies. With rabies, unfortunately, there is no cure. So, when symptoms develop, there is no treatment, and often when it develops, it is often fatal. So we want the public to know that prevention is key to preventing rabies infection,” Solis said.
Fresno County officials do not believe there is a threat to public health at this time, but are working with the Merced County Health Department to identify any other possible exposures and administer vaccines.
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Seneng’s coworkers have set up a GoFundMe account to assist her family during this time.
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Another batch of raw milk from a trendy California brand just tested positive for bird flu
- Two batches of raw milk from a trendy California brand have tested positive for bird flu this week.
- Bird flu has been spreading rapidly among cattle in the US.
- Experts say drinking raw milk is dangerous, and can cause food poisoning.
Another batch of raw milk just tested positive for bird flu in California.
Last Sunday, Fresno-based Raw Farm voluntarily recalled a first batch of cream top whole raw milk with a “best by” date of November 27. By Wednesday, the California Department of Public Health announced that a second batch of Raw Farm cream top, with a “best by” date of December 7 had also tested positive for bird flu, based on retail sampling.
“We’re not making a big deal about it, because it’s not a big deal,” Kaleigh Stanziani, Raw Farm’s vice president of marketing, said in a short video posted on YouTube after the farm’s first voluntary recall was announced earlier this week.
She said there had only been an indication that there might be a “trace element of something possible,” emphasizing that there had been no reported illnesses of Raw Farms cows or positive tests from the cattle.
Raw Farm owner Mark McAfee later told the LA Times that the California Department of Food and Agriculture had requested that his company “hold delivery of further products” until Friday, after conducting thorough testing of two Raw Farms and one creamery on Wednesday. (McAfee could not immediately be reached for comment by Business Insider during the Thanksgiving holiday.)
Raw milk may be helping bird flu spread — but not in the way you might think
Scientists suspect that cross-contamination of raw milk between animals may be one reason the H5N1 virus is spreading rapidly among cows in the US — and could even contribute to the human spread of the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that dairy workers might be able to contract bird flu by infected raw milk splashed into their eyes.
There is no definitive evidence yet that humans can get bird flu from drinking contaminated raw milk. Instead, health authorities generally recommend avoiding raw milk because of other serious health risks, including food poisoning with bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli, or Listeria.
There are no known health benefits of drinking raw milk. Instead, all evidence suggests that pasteurized milk is just as nutritious, and is safer to consume.
Still, raw milk has become a trendy product among some influencers. Gwenyth Paltrow says she has it in her coffee in the morning.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, says he wants the US Food and Drug Administration to stop its “war” against raw milk.
Over the summer, “Carnivore MD” Paul Saladino released a raw milk smoothie in partnership with the elite Los Angeles health foods store Erewhon featuring unpasteurized (raw) kefir from Raw Farms, and powdered beef organs.
California has some of the loosest rules around raw milk in the country; it’s generally fine for California retailers like health foods stores and grocers to sell it, raw milk products just can’t be transported across state lines, per FDA rules.
Michael Payne, a researcher at the Western Institute of Food Safety and Security, told The Guardian that people consuming Dr. Paul’s $19 smoothie were “playing Russian roulette with their health,” and ignoring pasteurization, “the single most important food safety firewall in history.”
California dairy farms have been seeing an uptick in bird flu cases since August. The state has reported 29 confirmed human cases of bird flu, and all but one of those was sourced back to cows.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of bird flu in a California child from Alameda County. The child had no known contact with infected farm animals, but may have been exposed to wild birds, the California health department said in a statement.
The child had mild symptoms and is recovering well after receiving antiviral drugs.
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