Posted on 03/24/2010 11:54:34 AM PDT by bs9021
The Answer is Federal Funding
Malcolm A. Kline, March 24, 2010
What is the question? “As Spring 2010 college graduates prepare to search for jobs, many from low-income families will start at a competitive disadvantage because they have had to work rather than take crucial, but often unpaid, professional internships that provide key skills for entering the workforce,” the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) claims. “A new legislative proposal from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Demos seeks to remedy this inequity by providing funding for low-income students to take high-quality public service internships.”
Of course they do. This is the same outfit that ran a commercial back in the 1990s allegedly showing that the U. S. spends less of its Gross Domestic Product on education than any other nation.
Unfortunately, they were only counting federal spending in America, not state and local, and, as one EPI analyst told me when I pointed out declining scores that went with spending hikes, they “didn’t want to get into that whole quantity versus quality thing.”...
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‘will start at a competitive disadvantage because they have had to work rather than take crucial, but often unpaid, professional internships that provide key skills for entering the workforce,”’
Not at any company Ive ever worked for...all interns were paid, well. At any rate college hires were never at an extreme disadvantage b/c they didnt have work experience in their field of study. Those who made good grades always had a place. That said, the biggest disadvantage these days sit in the WH and Congress. Theyre the real problem college grads are having problems finding work. That and many are graduating w/ majors in subjects not worth much.
Why, oh why, do we need people to waste their time working useless “public service” internships? I’d say their “disadvantage” is actually to society’s benefit, as it will provide them motivation to work jobs that will actually produce things.
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