Word: programing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...unfortunate, then, that the same economic injustices that plague our society plague this internship program. By not paying its interns, the White House limits participation to those who can afford to work without pay. As a result, the intern program is as much a cause of inequality as it is a result...
...what is wrong with our country. The American creed, if it is anything, is a commitment to equal opportunity. People in our country, we like to think, should be judged by their merit, not by the tax-bracket of their parents. Yet this is how the White House internship program operates, by default if not by intent, in running an "equal opportunity" program with the implicit understanding that only the economically privileged need apply...
...gets worse. Another less-known but far more insidious injustice infects the program. Hidden on the internship application is a box applicants check if they desire to be evaluated "only under equal opportunity criteria." This sly sentence attempts to obscure the fact that a select number of internships are doled out under a different criteria; that sons and daughters of donors and political insiders are given an institutionally sanctioned upper hand over their hard working peers. Who needs grades, skills and letters of recommendation when you have connections...
...White House Interns Program is not alone. In Congress, and indeed in every state house and governor's office across the country, the vast majority of political internships come without pay and most sanction less-than-meritocratic means of entry...
...judgment was far too important to leave to gut instinct or to the opinions of self-appointed pundits. What price truth, freedom and the American way? I reckon about $160 (plus shipping and handling) should do it - and that's the amount I invested in a new computer program that promises to sort the wheat from the chaff, the pretender from the president-elect - the Bush from the Gore (or vice versa...