Word: profiteering
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...make the transition away from such internships easier, federal funding should subsidize otherwise unpaid positions at non-profits. These organizations often cannot afford to provide their interns with wages, unlike their for-profit counterparts. This funding would allow students of all backgrounds to consider opportunities outside of the profit sector, and most importantly, ensure that high net worth is not a prerequisite for considering public service as a career option...
...enough, one that should be repealed is the stipulation that an internship must offer experience replicable at a vocational school or an academic institution, thus precluding a large number of industries from offering unpaid internships and limiting opportunities for jobseekers. Another worthy of repeal mandates that the employer cannot profit from intern labor. The latter criterion is the most often violated, demonstrating that interns view it as a fair trade to contribute to their employers’ profit margins in exchange for valuable work experience
Some opponents of unpaid internships argue that only non-profit companies should be allowed to hire interns, since they theoretically do not benefit economically from their interns’ labor. While many non-profits contribute admirably to the public good, this proposal is needlessly biased against those with interests outside of the non-profit sphere. The fact that an organization may profit from its services does not make it exploitative and evil. Doctors, for example, often practice for profit...
...simply not the business of the government to cast normative judgments on different kinds of internships, be they profit versus non-profit or paid versus unpaid. Enforcing the ban on these internships, would even the playing field, but it would do so by reducing opportunity for all. Equality need not be bought at the expense of opportunity...
...outdone, Republicans have accused Democrats of trying to profit politically by playing the victim. Cantor held a press conference before recess, during which he accused Dems of "fanning the flames" by trying to use the threats as a "political weapon." And certainly Democrats haven't been shy about raising funds from the other side's ugly moments, like when Tea Party protesters hurled racial epithets against civil-rights legend Representative John Lewis, spat at other African-American members and called Representative Barney Frank, one of a handful of openly gay Congressmen, a "f_____." "Members have had death threats," read...