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"Have I got a 'stipend' for you..."
Posted on 07/28/2018 1:02:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) will reportedly begin paying interns in some form in the future after a protest from the current intern class resulted in a roundtable this week with the group's chief, Rep. Ben Luján (D-N.M.).
During the meeting with interns on Thursday, Luján pledged that the DCCC is "going forward" with a plan to begin paying interns, adding that new intern classes would be offered a "stipend" for their services, The Huffington Post reported.
The DCCC is headquartered in Washington, D.C., where high costs of living often mean that an unpaid internship is impossible without a second job or some sort of outside financial support.
A spokesperson for the DCCC told The Huffington Post that the organization is “reviewing its intern program" but declined to offer further details.
Luján's meeting with interns came after one member of the current class, Lydia Murray, authored a letter pointing out racial and class disparities in the current class of interns, saying it did not reflect American society as a whole.
“Most of our fellow interns, while undoubtedly bright, are white and wealthy and have no real understanding of the perspectives of everyday working Americans, nor do we have fellow interns with diverse backgrounds to discuss issues, ideas, or experiences with,” her letter read. “It is impossible for us to champion the working class when at the most basic levels, those who work in the party do not represent them on a socioeconomic or racial basis.”
Murray told The Huffington Post that her frustrations with the party centered around feeling that the party took working-class voters, especially people of color, for granted. In her letter, she pointed to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which began paying interns this year and reportedly saw the percentage of people of color in the program increase from 18 percent to 42 percent.
“There’s this general misunderstanding about people of color, and also this general misunderstanding about working-class people that you hear,” Murray said. “A belief that, of course, people of color are going to vote Democrat, we don’t have to earn their vote anymore. Or a belief that if you’re working class and from the Midwest, this is how you’re going to think.”
Don't they know they're fighting for 'The Cause'?
Paid protestors have so much credibility.
"Have I got a 'stipend' for you..."
A higher minimum wage payout for thee, but nothing at all for me!
Today’s Democrats are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
I’m confused. Did these interns know that it was unpaid or not? If you volunteer to work for free, how can you then demand money?
But only if the “put out”? I mean we are talking libodems here.
Democrats have a long history of dependence on unpaid workers. ‘Til that darn Civil War thing made it so you were mostly supposed to pay The Help. Now even the interns think they should get money!
15 dollars an hour?
Just for some perspective ... students pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition at colleges. By NOT charging interns ‘tuition’, they are, effectively, “paying” them multiple times the minimum wage.
It better be a living wage, none of these $10.50 an hour deals. Oh, right, liberals, others have to pay such wages, so it’ll likely be less than $5 an hour.
For the People??? maybe it should be screw the People
Democrats yearn for the “good old days” when they didn’t pay workers in the field. Note that pay may not necessarily mean money, but “payment in some form”.
That's fair now, since they are only 12-15% of the population...
African math...
Offering $ 1.50 per hour.
Those people, and by those people I mean blacks, are always on the hustle for an angle.
Then why is this working class hero asking for money?
money? they're learning the most important thing they will ever learn in their useless lives and that's how to network and whore and prostitute themselves from the biggest collective of disparate filthy enema nozzles on the planet
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