workers and have made the entry level job virtually an endangered species. un unpaid internships are going gangbuster as never before. i think the internship boom has all kinds of significant issues we need to be talking b. there is also a class angle to this as well, right, because parents do their best to help their kids land those plumb internships, but there is a real gap between what they can wrangle in terms of intern ships and what they have room for. is that the issue here? it s the key issue, matt, and it s often gotten lost in the debates around this. not only do we have exploited stories of interns making zil yonz of copies, running coffee
afford to work for free and don t have the kinds of personal connections, the kinds of networks to get these positions will be left out and will be all the poorer for it. susan has a question. my question is, when i went to school, i did internships. i did an internship after school as well, all unpaid, and that was kind of part of the experience. what you re talking about, though, is when you hear people interning in their mid to late 20s, it seems like there is a difference between the two. can you get a little deeper into maybe someone who is doing this for a college credit versus someone who is doing it because they just can t find a job? there are certainly great internships out there, still. in many ways, internships is a great idea with intentions that have gone wrong. 30 to 40 years ago when internships were still an experience done by a relatively small population i m not suggesting you were doing it 30 or 40 years ago thank you.
to their boss, but it s more about access and the come flexion of whole fields. internships have now become a pay to play system. you can t essentially pay to work for free, that is, cover your rent in some of the most expensive cities in the country. food, living expenses often pay for the academic credit you need to buy from your school to do it, you re simply out of luck. increasingly, young students have to do not one or two internships, but pseudo internships, and even then a job is not necessarily around the corner. it s become another factor in social inequality. the field where intern ships are most important, politics, film, media, television, entertainment, those are places we re going to hear a more limited range of voices because of this. people from working class backgrounds who need to be working a paid job who can t
low-wage wager has been a boon. they re often doing the work of employers but with no salary, no medical care and no. he s the author of intern nation , how to earn little in this country. what would you say first? i know lots of kids who are either in college or just coming out of college, internships that are unpaid are basically their only option to get a toehold in the work force. you think that s really a disaster for the economy. say why. that s right, matt, internships have become a prerequisite for young people wanting to enter the white color work force which is where prestigious jobs are located. they re displacing untold thousands of regular full-time
shadowing programs. where real work is being done, it needs to be paid for. ross perlin. the book is intern nation. putting your finger on an economic trend we ll need be watching. thanks for coming by. thanks as always to our internal alumni panel. thanks as always for your insights, guys. coming up, from internships to job training for vets military boot camp style. lcium e because they don t take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it s the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that s why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it s all about absorption. is now within your grasp with the all-new e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world s first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they re doing