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Students Deserve Clear Beauty Workforce Pathway Information
NABA’s public-interest position: students should receive clear, source-backed information before choosing cosmetology, nails, esthetics, or another lawful beauty pathway.
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Make Yourself Proud: A Humanization Message for Builders, Workers, and Small Business Leaders
NABA shares Di Tran’s Make Yourself Proud as a humanization-centered message for builders, workers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.
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Beauty Workforce Accountability Should Reward Right-Sized Pathways
NABA’s policy position: beauty workforce accountability should protect students through transparency, specialization, affordability, and lawful pathway matching.
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Beauty Workforce Policy Should Recognize More Than One Path
NABA calls for student choice, pathway transparency, specialization, and public-safety-centered beauty workforce policy.
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Louisville Beauty Academy Culture Wall: Workforce Dignity and Student Choice
NABA frames the Louisville Beauty Academy culture wall as workforce dignity: affordable training, student choice, and practical professionalism.
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Kentucky Workforce Education Proof Model: Low-Cost Licensure, Student Choice, and Reduced Red Tape
A NABA policy note using Louisville Beauty Academy’s U.S. Chamber CO-100 recognition as a careful Kentucky proof model for affordable, state-licensed workforce education, student choice, written accountability, and reduced red…
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Humane Compliance For Nail Salons And Immigrant Small Businesses
NABA policy education on worker classification, taxes, Medicaid cliffs, and the need for humane compliance support for nail salons and immigrant small businesses.
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Transparent Cost Before Student Debt: A Student-Choice Policy Framework
NABA’s policy framework for transparent cost comparison, lower-debt state-licensed education, and accountable student-choice funding.
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Beauty School Without the Debt Trap: A Policy Question for Student Choice and Workforce Dignity
NABA frames Beauty School Without the Debt Trap as a policy question about accountable student choice, lower-cost licensed schools, workforce dignity, and practical education support.
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Consumer Protection Should Help Students See Clearly
The best consumer protection does not confuse students. It gives them clearer information, better questions, and stronger decision power.
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Student Dignity, Consumer Protection, and Practical Beauty Education Reform
Beauty education reform should protect students without suffocating practical, affordable, state-licensed pathways into work.
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From Louisville to Washington: How Di Tran, Louisville Beauty Academy, and NABA Are Bringing Small-Business and Beauty Industry Voices into America’s Workforce Policy Conversations
NABA Research & Policy Leadership Series 2026 A Public Record of Advocacy, Workforce Leadership, and Entrepreneurial Representation At the New American Business Association (NABA), we believe that public policy is…
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Workforce education sponsor: Louisville Beauty Academy · Technology learning partner: Louisville Institute of Technology