N.J. law could shave off hurdles to the barber profession

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

When Joe Perchetti sits in the sturdy porcelain-and-red-vinyl chair at Caravelli's Barber Shop in Haddonfield, he doesn't need to tell owner Anthony Fiore what to do.

"He gets it short, and then he likes his mustache according to military standards," Fiore said as he took electric clippers to the hair on the sides and back of the former soldier's head.

It's the ease of a quick haircut in the comfort of a familiar place, with a touch of warm shaving cream around the ears, that draws a faithful, almost entirely male crowd to Caravelli's, the nearly 110-year-old Haddonfield institution that Fiore describes as "a throwback."

But maintaining the business is not quite so simple.

State law requires everyone who cuts hair, from new barbers to high-fashion stylists, to get a cosmetology license.

Licensure is another name for being pro-unemployment.