In Washington, Unpaid Internships Still Popular
- By Jeremy B. White
- Roll Call Staff
- March 25, 2010, Midnight
For students intent on finding work, an unpaid internship is a necessary sacrifice, one that helps build contacts and gain invaluable workplace experience. But some observers are wary of how a marketplace in which uncompensated labor has become a near-ubiquitous feature might discriminate against students unable to sustain the financial burden of working for no pay.
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