Italy Considers Liberalizing its Job Market

The World

Italy’s government wants to create jobs by liberalizing the job market.

That would diminish the power of professional guilds that currently control who can and who cannot practice certain types of jobs.

Reporter Megan Williams in Rome offers two points of view: a young pharmacist who favors liberalization and a taxi guild leader who prefers to keep strict controls on his industry.

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