Economics

Obsolete Laws Stifle Job Growth

Testing canning equipment at Triangle Brewery in Durham, N.C.Photograph by Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT via Getty Images
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Most states have obsolete and counterproductive laws and regulations—throwbacks to the Depression Era and earlier—that discourage entrepreneurship, increase business costs, and harm job creation.

Many of these laws are probably benign and no longer enforced. Some create hardships for businesses trying to make a go of it in a tough economy.