Business are skirting the law and weakening the U.S. economy by exploiting recent college grads.
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College students are borrowing thousands of dollars they don’t have for an education that is suppose to get them a good, sustainable job that will allow them to pay back their debt. For more and more recent grads that sustainable job is actually an un-sustainable, un-paid internship thats not any more likely than not having an internship to guarantee a paid position.
Check-out this graphic
Feature Photo via flickr/afagen
Almost all companies with unpaid internships are violating labor laws. But who’s going to prosecute them?
Internships ….pretty vague. Which ones are you referring to? Which ones are abusive and which ones are useful and/or are required due to the industry they’ll eventually be working?