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Four years ago, I reported on social worker Ursula Newell-Davis’s fight to help special needs kids.

Louisiana's Health Department told her she couldn’t work because her business wasn’t needed.

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How does the government know if a business is needed? The market should decide.

Bureaucrats say blocking businesses like hers helps “limit the burden on regulators."

That’s absurd.

“That’s just not a legitimate excuse that the government doesn’t have enough money to administer people’s constitutional rights.” says Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation. She’s helping Newell-Davis sue Louisiana.

But It’s not just Louisiana--dozens of states have laws that force entrepreneurs to prove they’re needed.

In this update video, I report on her fight, and the new way she found to help special needs kids, without government interference.
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