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Elizabeth Warren pays interns $0 per hour!
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| 04/12/2013
Posted on 04/12/2013 12:05:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Elizabeth Warren has gained notoriety recently for complaining that the minimum wage would be $22 per hour if it kept up with worker productivity gains over the past several decades.
Warren’s analysis was fundamentally flawed because it did not measure increased productivity of minimum wage unskilled workers or justify paying $45,000 per year as a minimum regardless of worker skills. Moreover, Warren cherry-picked the $22 number, ignoring other much lower numbers in the study on which she relied based on other measurements.
But it was a YouTube and media hit, and has solidified Warren’s role as progressive champion, particularly when Warren asked “what happened to the other $13.75?”
If the minimum wage was so important to Warren, we wondered what she paid her interns.
The abuse of interns by powerful corporations like The NY Times is well documented, and the subject of controversy by student and worker advocates who argue that such internships in the private sector may violate wage laws. Even if done in compliance with legal guidelines, unpaid internships take advantage of unequal bargaining power in a weak job market.
Warren actively is seeking interns for her Senate offices.
We checked today with Warren’s Senate office, and were told that “all internships are unpaid.” When asked whether they had any paid internships, the office responded “we do not.”
Warren is not alone. Unpaid internships in Congress are the norm and appear to be legal because that’s the way Congress wrote the law.
We also researched internships Warren’s Senate campaign offered. Warren’s campaign made very effective use of “internships” as a lure to get students to work on campuses and elsewhere for the campaign. The internships were both part and full time and were unpaid.
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I don’t blame Warren for making liberal use of students hammered by a bad job market, even though she raised over $40 million. Nobody built a campaign on their own. Nobody.
The use of unpaid interns does, however, raise questions whether Warren’s rhetoric meets her reality considering she so publicly has lambasted private sector employers for not paying $22 per hour. Warren could have gone above and beyond what the law required.
These are just some facts to consider the next time Warren rips into some business person for not paying employees enough.
Update – Aleister writes, Brother Of Rich Senator Elizabeth Warren Lives On $13,200 Per Year (via Instapundit).
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: District of Columbia; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; elizabethwarren; intern; massachusetts
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To: SeekAndFind
Elizabeth Warren pays interns $0 per hour! Even if she paid them, I bet she'd be an Indian Giver.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:08:40 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(It's not "GUN CONTROL"! It's "PEOPLE CONTROL"!)
To: SeekAndFind
It sounds as though Fauxcahantas High Cheekbones didn’t make very much from the sales of her Indian Cookbook.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:12:07 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
To: SeekAndFind
do her interns at least receive stipends? the corporation i worked for gave stipends to all its interns...
To: The Sons of Liberty
During the wars, were fake Indians only allowed to scalp people by taking toupees?
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:14:01 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: SeekAndFind
And Joe Biden charges the Secret Service rent.
I’m sensing a pattern.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:14:01 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SeekAndFind
They’re interns. Duh! They’re different from low-wage workers because... uh, because... uuuuh... they are!
To: SeekAndFind
My first question is...what would Liawatha’s philosophical disciples at “Occupy Wall Street” say?
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:15:34 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: The Sons of Liberty
Even if she paid them, I bet she'd be an Indian Giver. You deserve a feather in your cap for that one.
Seriously: what sort of young person can afford to live and work for 12 weeks in the most expensive city in America for nothing?
The kids of rich liberals, that's who. And there are many of them in places like Massachusetts and Maryland.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:15:51 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Fauxcahantas! That’s good.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:16:08 PM PDT
by
BoneHead
To: latina4dubya
We do the same thing in our company. We don’t have to, but our interns are hardworkers. Went through the same ordeal, but I’ve had bosses who were grade A a-holes.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:16:46 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
To: SeekAndFind
That’s using the old Little Red Book! Great going, Sqaw.
To: SeekAndFind
Every time I think we’ve reach the bottom of the liberal barrel, someone like Eliz War-hontis shows up.
Really, is there a more dishonest and stupid female extant?
And remember, some school actually gave this wench a degree.
And some voters actually thought she could represent them.
(They must not have much to represent.)
Hey, ‘Liz, you’ve got a smelly Obama. Shove yourself up it.
To: SeekAndFind
This says more about the people of Massachusetts than it does millionaire Senator Warren.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:20:25 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: The Sons of Liberty
RE: Even if she paid them, I bet she'd be an Indian Giver.
You don't say...
To: SeekAndFind
I’ve said it before, and will say it again. If your internship is unpaid, you picked the wrong profession.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:23:48 PM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: SeekAndFind
Here's another politician "angel" practicing what she preaches.
It's so comforting to know that our citizens have voted to give wonderful people like this, power over us.
They are so much better than we are.
We can't make it without them.
We need them to run every aspect our lives.(/s)
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:27:11 PM PDT
by
Pajamajan
(Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
To: Gay State Conservative
And she doesn’t support or help her brother who only makes $13,000 a year!
To: SeekAndFind
Typical liberal who is free with other people’s money but niggardly with their own.
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posted on
04/12/2013 12:35:41 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The founding fathers didn't form this country by compromising.)
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