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Worse, these same students later face de facto discrimination when applying for jobs for which an internship is deemed a stepping-stone. The majority of firms expressly cited “relevant work experience in the form of internships?? as the primary motivation to hire a recent college graduate. As it stands, if you can’t afford work to without pay before graduating, you might not work at all afterwards...
...mushrooming number of undergraduates partaking in unpaid internships??up from nine percent in 1992 to 83 percent in 2008—has led many, including President Obama’s Labor Department, to question the legality and the advantages of such employment. Critics argue that the rise of unpaid internships has led to increased socioeconomic disparity, as lower-income students cannot sacrifice a summer salary to participate in such programs and are thus handicapped in the later race for post-collegiate jobs...
Schwartz noted later in an interview that students whose financial aid packages require them to contribute a certain amount of summer earnings to their tuition payments often do not apply to public service internships??particularly political ones—because they usually don’t offer salaries...
...that such an investment need not always be financial. In many cases, in fact, the greatest dividends––both to students and to our community at large––are paid not in dollars but in experiences.Many of the most enriching summer internships??–those with publications like Atlantic Monthly or with nonprofits like the Council on Foreign Relations––are unpaid. While Harvard does offer a vast number of grants and other forms of support for students pursuing unpaid but valuable summer activities, these...
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