A few years ago Minnesota bumped up the education requirements to 150 credits to become a CPA "in order to keep in line with other states".  In this legislative session they are trying to reduce it to 120 credits to fight the shortage.  Maybe we shouldn't have bumped it up that high to begin with??????  This profession is no different than carpet layers to headstone engravers ----------- the people that did the job for years are either retired or dead and nobody wants to do those jobs any longer.