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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Obama offers internships but makes them illegal for companies

So recently the Obama administration ruled that unpaid internships will be against the law. One might wonder what will happen to all the young people who use internships as resume builders and stepping stones to jobs: what, for example, will happen to student teachers? Schools certainly can't afford to pay them, yet those are unpaid internships. How do you get experience without building blocks of summer jobs and internships? Yet, in the most bizarre, condescending, and disjointed circumstances, you can read this article at the WashTimes about the UNPAID INTERNSHIPS that the Obama fundraising organizations offer, in complete defiance of their own future policies:
It is amusing to see the Obama administration creating the image of poorly treated unpaid interns, when Mr. Obama's Organizing for America offered internships to help elect the president during his presidential campaign and are still offering up unpaid  internships today. In fact, the summer organizing program also does not even offer food, transportation, or housing stipends:

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