Unpaid Internship

This summer, many college students and new graduates are slugging through unpaid internships, borrowing money from mom and dad, working part-time jobs, and questioning their existential worth. There are also some college students and new graduates doing their internships at Facebook, and taking home close to ...

The unpaid internship: It's what today's teens and twenty-somethings have come to expect as a rite of passage, a necessary foot-in-the-door to a competitive industry. In his expose, "Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy," Ross Perlin places the value of intern labor at ...