Employers: Pay your interns. Labor Department: Bust them if they don’t! | Economic Policy Institute
"If the government doesn’t enforce the law, all employers will eventually think they can hire employees without paying them, simply by calling it an “internship.” As long as the labor market is weak, desperate young people will take these jobs, believing they have no choice, persuaded that the only way to get a paying job is to suffer through a period—or multiple, serial periods—of exploitation."
