https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674378315/new-congresswoman-will-pay-her-interns-15-an-hour-is-that-a-big-deal
Last year, two former unpaid House interns, Carlos Mark Vera and Guillermo Creamer, founded an organization called Pay Our Interns. They collected data about who pays what on Capitol Hill, and they found that about 90 percent of House offices don't pay their interns at all — a figure that Creamer called "abysmal."
The numbers are a bit better on the Senate side: Half of Senate Democrats pay their interns at least a stipend, while 55 percent of Senate Republicans do.
As for the $15 hourly wage, only three members of Congress currently pay their interns so well, Creamer tells NPR: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Doug Jones, D-Ala., and Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington state.
My man Dougie
She's in good company.
insert "She's an Airhead" comment here
wasting money by giving it away to other people smh
Honestly, unpaid internship should be outright illegal. The long and arduous hours interns have to work entitle them to fair compensation, a living wage really.
I continually see this shit but I've never actually seen it substantiated in any way. I literally saw he compared to Sarah Palin the other day on Facebook.
So much for being working class! She has pockets deep enough to pay her employees minimum meanwhile the humble and honorable Walmart family has to resort to the kindness of the community to feed their employees
it also severely limits who can even afford to serve in congress as they have to have the riches to afford living in or around DC on no income.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO
According to the article, the money was set aside by congress, but rules on how it's allowed to be used haven't been put out yet. So most offices are waiting for those rules before posting their paid internships. Occasio-Cortez has decided to just do it and assume it's going to work out.
I'm not sure why giving paid internship that everyone is going to have in the near future is praiseworthy, but OK.
No no, you see, they get paid in exposure.
SG back at it again trying to find even an ounce of criticism in someone doing something good just because the letter (D) is in the person's title.
It some ways they are. An unpaid intern can't make the employer money or have any immediate benefit.
Unpaid Internship Rules
'frankly donating organs is an option every voter gets, so I can't see why Occasio-Cortez donating her heart and lungs is praiseworthy'
remember when had standards for yourself
Isn't it praiseworthy to be on the forefront of a positive trend?
oh hey dougie nice shit
good for OC too
Did you completely ignore that part of the article where 90% of House Interns are unpaid and only 3 members of congress pay that much?
abolitionists weren't good because slavery would've disappeared in the future anyway
he can't handle all that (D) in his face
You are a sad little man
Voting for this man was one of the proudest moments of my life.
Still very upsetting to me that he won against a fuckin' pedophile by like a 0.1% margin
Yeah saw some disturbing numbers for Jonesy running in 2020, in the midterms the Dem governor candidate in AL got 20k more votes then Jones while the Repub got 600,000 more then Moore. Jones only won
because Moore was already infamous and the pedo stuff sealed the deal.
he never had argumentative standards
he's been this bad for years with shit arguments like how gay men in the US always had equal rights, because they could also marry women
Donald Trump becoming gradually more and more unhinged, daily updates from the Mueller investigation, reports of GOP legislators consolidating power out of the hands of upcoming Democratic governors and pushing off referendum results: I sleep
A Democrat pays her interns a living wage: REAL SHIT.
If people want to work for free in hopes of improving their marketability then why should we stop them? It's silly to outright ban something that is VOLUNTARY.
because just because it's 'voluntary' doesn't mean it's actually not necessary for them to do in practice
It's silly to allow certain entities to steal 50, 60, 70 hours of labor from people. 'Improving their marketability' doesn't pay rent or buy food, but a living wage does, and that's why all interns should be legally guaranteed a living wage. I can guarantee you every single unpaid intern in the country would, without a second thought, switch to a different internship if that internship was the same tasks, same hours, but came with a proper wage attached to it. They don't want to work for free, they're just being exploited by a system that all but forces them to work for free.
You put in more than full time hours at a place you deserve ample monetary compensation for that, especially in today's world where the dollar goes nowhere and the cost of living is astronomical.
Abahahaha, no, read the article.
90% of these offices were not going to pay their interns.
People don't want to work for free. It's not a choice.
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