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In 1980, I was a Navy veteran<\/a> sleeping in a 20-year-old car, scraping together $700 to start a hair care company with a stylist named Paul Mitchell. We believed the American Dream was still open for business. Forty-six years later, that same dream is what a federal rule is about to close down for the next generation.<\/p>\n

The Department of Education<\/a> has proposed an earnings premium metric under the gainful employment rule that will judge career programs by one rigid number: whether vocational graduates, four years after completion, earn more than the typical full-time worker aged 25\u201334 in the same state without a college degree. Programs that fail the test in two out of three years lose access to federal student aid. According to the Department\u2019s own data, more than 92% of beauty and barber programs nationwide would fail.<\/p>\n

This is not a minor regulatory tweak. It is a death sentence for thousands of cosmetology, barber, esthetician and nail schools across America. Without Title IV aid, most students \u2014 many of them single mothers, veterans, first-generation Americans and working-class kids \u2014 simply cannot afford the training and education required for state licensure. Schools will close. The pipeline of new licensed professionals will collapse. And at the exact moment we are being told skilled trades and human-centered careers are the future in an AI-driven economy, we are threatening to defund an industry built on human connection, creativity and hands-on expertise.<\/p>\n

The beauty industry is a $100 billion economic engine that employs 1.3 million Americans. It is one of the few sectors where someone can earn a marketable credential<\/a> in under a year, walk into a shop or salon and build a business. Our professionals are overwhelmingly women who rely on flexible, part-time schedules to raise families while generating income. Many earn the majority of their money through tips and clientele-building \u2014 income that grows substantially after the first few years but is invisible in the Department\u2019s early-career snapshot.<\/p>\n

THE AI REVOLUTION THREATENS OFFICE JOBS, BUT REVIVES DEMAND FOR SKILLED TRADES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By ignoring these realities \u2014 part-time work, tips, self-employment and the female-dominated nature of the field \u2014 the rule systematically understates the true value of beauty education. It compares new licensees to full-time workers with only a high-school diploma, many of whom have already been in the workforce for a decade. The result is a false narrative that beauty programs don\u2019t deliver, when in reality, they deliver exactly what millions of Americans need: flexible, entrepreneurial, in-person careers that cannot be automated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The economic fallout will be swift and widespread. School closures mean fewer licensed professionals entering the workforce at a time when demand is growing. Salons, spas<\/a> and barbershops will face chronic staffing shortages. Rural communities and small towns \u2014 already struggling with service gaps \u2014 will see “beauty deserts” where basic grooming and wellness services disappear. Consumers will lose access to safe, licensed care. Small business owners who rely on barbers and stylists will watch revenues fall. The ripple effects will hit product manufacturers, distributors, real estate and local tax bases.<\/p>\n

This is not just about beauty and barber schools. It is about stripping opportunity from the very people the American economy claims to champion. The single mother who sees beauty as her path to independence. The veteran looking for a stable second career. The young entrepreneur who dreams of owning her own salon. These are the people who built this $100 billion industry \u2014 and the people who will lose the most if it is starved of new talent and fair access to education.<\/p>\n

THE \u2018ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL\u2019 URGENTLY NEEDS A MAKEOVER TO USHER IN TRUMP\u2019S GOLDEN AGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Congress understood this when it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The law<\/a> deliberately limits this earnings framework to undergraduate degree<\/i> programs and graduate certificates. Undergraduate certificate programs like cosmetology and barbering were intentionally left out. The department should follow the law, not rewrite it.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Secretary Linda McMahon has the power \u2014 and the lived experience \u2014 to fix this. She knows what it means to build a business from the ground up. She should direct the department to exclude undergraduate non-degree and certificate programs in licensed trades from the earnings premium test, consistent with statutory intent. This single change would protect opportunity, preserve workforce pipelines and safeguard a vital sector of our economy.<\/p>\n

The comment period closes May 20. Now is the time for all of us who love this industry \u2014 school owners, professionals, salon owners, manufacturers and the millions of Americans we serve \u2014 to speak up and protect it for the next generation.<\/p>\n

Beauty and barbering are not fallback careers. They are pathways to independence, entrepreneurship<\/a>, creativity and human connection. They change lives every single day behind the chair.<\/p>\n

We built this industry with our hands. We will fight for its future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/federal-regulations-wreck-industry-gave-everything <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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