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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (392140)12/18/2018 9:27:27 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 540882
 
Really, Koan? Guess what--I worked as an intern in Congress way back in the summer of 1968 and guess what I got paid? Zero. And guess what, I would do it again as a young person. It was a great experience for a summer. Guess what many people coming out of college get paid as interns in the private sector as well as the public sector. Many staffers work for nothing? I find that part hard to believe.

E.g. her "outing" the fact the interns and many staffers are working for nothing. That is crazy, this is the US congress. Why would we have people working there for nothing? And why did no one else bring this up before? And she is going to pay them. I'll bet they change the rules now and everyone will be paid for their work, as they should be. That will be a feather in her cap.

She isn't "outing" anything, except for uninformed people like her and, apparently, you who don't know how things work but scream at every imagined wrong in the world without investigating further. Which isn't to say that everything is honky dory in Congress. Here for example is an article from last March talking about unpaid internships in Congress. But it doesn't highlight the fact that they are unpaid. It talks about NDAs.

Exclusive: Congress requires many unpaid interns to sign nondisclosure agreements
What happens in Congress stays in Congress.
By Rachel Wolfe @rachelbwolfe rachel.wolfe@vox.com Mar 5, 2018, 2:00am PST

vox.com


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