NJ Senator Cory Booker Launches a Paid Internship Program
Pay Our Interns is eager to announce the latest Senator to pay their interns. For more information on Pay Our Interns click here.
2105, 2018
2604, 2018
The Atlantic: Congress May Finally Be Feeling the Shamefulness of Unpaid Hill Internships
The legislature will have to study the effect of this long-standing practice, while renewed attention to the issue is bringing it out of the shadows. The teams favorite line: “But one scrappy, not-quite-two-year-old non-profit group, called Pay Our Interns, has popped up to crusade for a very specific usage: paying congressional interns.” Thank you to The Atlantic for highlighting what we do. Read the piece here: Link
2504, 2018
ROLL CALL: We Can’t Afford Not to Pay Interns (OPINION)
This issue is too important to ignore, Sen. Chris Van Hollen writes For the first time a sitting Senator has taken the time to express why paid internships are so important. Since his second month in office Sen. Van Hollen has joined us in our efforts to get interns paid. Check out what the Senator has to say: Link
2504, 2018
ROLL CALL: New Push for Senators to Pay Their Interns
“Advocates say the time is right for offices to stop relying on free labor” News about Pay Our Interns Senate Push was received by every single Congressional Office through the well known Roll Call news. We are happy to report positive phone calls happening after this article was published. Read the article here: Link
0603, 2018
Vox: Exclusive: Congress requires many unpaid interns to sign NDAs.
Pay Our Interns is proud to have contributed to this Vox report. NDAs for interns should include exception clauses for harassment, discrimination, and abuse. When you don’t have that, it contributes to the sexual harassment culture & deeply hierarchical nature of Congress. Link: Vox
0712, 2017
Huffington Post: Democratic National Committee To Start Paying Its Interns
Earlier this year we got Tom Perez to pledge that the DNC will start offering paid internship opportunities if he were elected. We are thrilled to announce that starting this January the DNC will offer stipends to interns! Link: Huffington Post
2510, 2017
ALTON DAILY NEWS: Double Standard for Intern Pay?
“If someone is for the ‘Fight for $15′ but doesn’t pay their interns, we see that as someone that’s not truly invested in helping lower-income people,” he said. “If they campaign on raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but then don’t pay their interns behind peoples’ backs, I would call it phony.” Link: http://www.altondailynews.com
0910, 2017
#NBCLatino20: The Equalizer, Carlos Mark Vera
“If you have rich interns, those rich interns become staffers, and then the decisions will be in the hands of 23-year-old rich kids who are mostly white,” he said. “That has implications for our democracy. We need to have them at the table.” Link: https://www.nbcnews.com
1407, 2017
USA Today: This nonprofit is fighting against unpaid internships
“Our biggest goal is to ensure that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have the same opportunities than those who can afford to do an unpaid internship,” Creamer said. “Let’s face it: Most of the legislative assistants, legislative directors and the people that end up working on the Hill once interned, so it really benefits students that can’t afford to have those paid internships, so that one day they can move on to being
3006, 2017
Huffington Post: Congress Called Out For Not Paying Interns
Vera is the founder of Pay Our Interns, a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that aims to increase the number of paid internships in government and the private sector. He is also one of the authors of a new Pay Our Interns report titled “Experience Doesn’t Pay The Bills: Why Paid Internships are a Must in Congress.” Link: Huffington Post