Chuck Schumer Ensures Rich Kid Staffers By Never Paying Them

In this Majority Report clip, unpaid internships are bad on multiple levels.

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"The same day Ocasio-Cortez shared her story, Pay Our Interns tweeted out an advertisement for an unpaid position in Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office. As the organization pointed out, Schumer, himself, started his political career as an intern, bringing in $1,800 a month in 1969. But that was long before the LBJ Congressional Intern program was axed under President Clinton’s deficit reduction plan in 1994. (The program had guaranteed interns were paid.)

On Monday afternoon, a Schumer spokesman Angelo Roefaro told Rolling Stone in an email, the advertisement for an unpaid intern “was made in error. Starting in January, Senator Schumer’s office will offer a stipend to eligible interns.”

“It’s a very nasty system that keeps rich people in control,” Vera says of unpaid internships, which cost the intern, on average, about $6,000 — money that limits the pool of eligible applicants to those who come from families wealthy enough to subsidize their children’s living expenses. As a former intern himself, and as a Latino, Vera says, “I saw an extreme lack of diversity, both in interns and staff in Congress.”"*

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