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Posted on 06/11/2025 9:20:01 AM PDT by karpov
Nearly 20 percent of Iowans must obtain an occupational license before they can work. A new law is lowering barriers to employment in the Hawkeye State.
Last week, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House File 711 into law, creating an apprenticeship program that allows unlicensed individuals to provide cosmetology and barbering services under the supervision of someone who is licensed and after completing two hours of education on sanitation rules. Businesses that participate in this program are required to register with the state's Board of Barbering and Cosmetology Arts and Sciences and comply with safety and sanitation requirements. Consumers must also receive written disclosure that the services are performed by an unlicensed provider partaking in an establishment training program.
The enactment of this bill will significantly reduce the barriers to working in Iowa's barbering and cosmetology industries. Under previous regulations, an individual required a license before making an income from providing salon and barbering services. But to obtain a license, one had to first graduate from a board-approved cosmetology program (with an average tuition of $19,508), complete 1,550 hours of supervised practice, and pass an examination—all to enter a profession in which half make less than $25,990 a year, according to the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm.
But now unlicensed employees will have the opportunity to immediately earn income while learning how to cut, color, shampoo, and style hair under licensed cosmetologists who own the establishment training programs. These business owners, rather than a board-approved school, are "responsible for ensuring education, training, skills, and competence of persons who provide services in the owner's establishment."
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Medicine for example.
Cutting hair, not so much. The difference between a good hair cut and a bad one is two weeks.
90% of all careers could be done this way, and many were in the past. Time to go back to move forward.
One of my hairdressers was able to take cosmetology courses when she was a sophomore, junior and senior in high school.
I would rather my taxes pay for that than just to be a pre prison nursery school.
They also offered architecture and landscaping courses.
no more make up exams
Years ago I read several articles that noted some states required hair braiders to attend cosmetology school etc. The article also pointed out that those schools did not teach hair braiding.
Now cosmologists can learn on the job, while working at telescopes and radio astronomy observatories, instead of spending 4 years in undergraduate physics, and then another 5 years on a PhD in astrophysics.
It bodes well for our knowledge of the universe.
Oh. wait a minute....
Technical schools will now expand under Trump. The community colleges need to expand by operating 16 hours a day for free.
The Barber mafia will not be amused. They have wildly profited too much to let this slide...
They also offered architecture and landscaping courses...................
i wouldn't let an unlicensed barber cut my hamsters hair.
There is a whole lot more to cutting hair than , cutting hair.
For all you barbers and cosmetology grads, dont listen to this fool harmless, I respect you and tip well.
harmy, do you bring your own bowl when mom cuts your hair? Or does she keep your favorite?
**The difference between a good hair cut and a bad one is two weeks.**
That’s what my dad told me when I was a kid. I’ve been cutting my own hair for around 42 years I think. If my wife thinks I didn’t get it straight on the back of my neck, she fixes it for me.
Cut my sons’ hair until they decided that they could do it themselves.
When I was a kid in the 1950s there was a barber school in town and they would offer low cost haircuts. Benefited both the school and the students learning the trade. We should see more of this.
LESS than two weeks, the way I cut my hair. Back when I lived in California, 1981-2, there was a local cosmetology school that did cut rate hair cuts. I could never tell the difference but, I suppose, that is because I keep my hair short, not styled. One less thing to bother with to start my day . . .
The excessive time and money to get a license to cut hair is a payoff to legislators to keep the number of “qualified “ barbers artificially low. In Tennessee you have to have 800 hours of “training” just to wash someone else’s hair.
Right. This would be especially good for Black women, who may have trouble finding “licensed’ hairdressers who know what they are doing, and some who know, but can’t afford 20,000 to go to school to get a license to do what they may already be doing under the table for friends and neighbors.
LET’S SEE HOW VISUALLY I CAN PROVE THAT I AM MENTALLY DERANGED???
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