A recent article in the New York Times titled “Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges“, highlights some interesting statistics about internships in the United States:

• Three-quarters of the 10M students in US 4 year colleges will work as interns at least once before graduating (College Employment Research Institute)
• Between 1/3 and 1/2 of these interns get no compensation for their efforts (Intern Bridge)
• Department of Labor says it is illegal to have Unpaid Interns unless:
  1) program is similar to vocational training
  2) Benefits the student
  3) Does not displace regular employee
  4) Does not entitle student to a job

Tags: College, Internships

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