Winner - Hypocrisy... Dem Lawmakers That Call for $15/hr Wages, Have Unpaid Interns (employment, Congressmen)

[DRob4JC]

How Many Lawmakers Advocating $15 Minimum Wage Hire Unpaid Interns

Almost all of the lawmakers who co-sponsored a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour also hired unpaid interns to supplement their staffs, a survey shows.

A report from the Employment Policies Institute reveals that 174 of the bill’s 184 co-sponsors, or 95 percent, hire interns who are paid nothing.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a leading voice in the calls for a $15 minimum wage, is the only senator to offer an hourly wage to interns, the study found.

However, it said, Sanders’ office offers $12 an hour while he proposes $15 in the private sector.

Now if you want to understand the effect of high minimum wages, you simply have to listen to the hypocrites... um, Congressman explain themselves...

Progressive lawmakers will argue that paying interns more will limit the number of available opportunities, the Employment Policies Institute notes, yet don’t recognize this same concern in the private sector.

Oh... really?

[dsjj251]

Do we not understand what an intern is ?

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

Do we not understand what an intern is ?

I know what an intern is - but I also know what hypocrisy is. Those Congressmen could pay those people for their services. Bernie is at least paying them.

[marigolds6]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

Do we not understand what an intern is ?

Interns are required by law to be paid, except that there is an exception for federal government interns.

[NOLA101]

I think someone doesn't understand what an intern is.

Either that, or they don't understand the meaning of the word "hypocrisy".