Unpaid internships came under fire after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out fellow colleagues for not paying their interns. Every year, over a million college students and recent grads join the “intern workforce” in hopes of getting the experience necessary to pursue their careers. But, many internships are unpaid, unregulated, and without employee protections. What’s more, not everyone can afford extracurricular job training with no pay, and that puts these students at a disadvantage when they are later seeking jobs. TOPFRIG discusses how this form of unpaid labor came to be, and how to make access to this experience more fair and inclusive.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING ProPublica on Obama era regulation
Department of Labor’s six factor test
Pay Our Interns’ congressional report
Matthew Hora’s college internship study
Andrew Mark Bennett on unpaid internships
CREDITS Produced and Edited by: Isabela Quintero, Dushyant Naresh, Page Ellerson Supervising Producer: Allison Brown
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