White House interns will be paid for the first time, in a change designed to make its internship program more accessible to lower-income students, the Biden administration said on Thursday.
If the average white house intern is as much of a ghoul as I’m imagining maybe they should just be unpaid interns forever
All this shit is inside baseball. Get favors for friends. Make friends by handing out favors. Lewinsky's family clearly had some degree of DC social and financial clout, as her mother had a residence at the fucking Watergate apartment complex in Foggy Bottom. While any kind of unpaid work position is bullshit, its worth noting that people who can access these positions very rarely need the money.
Per Wikipedia: With the assistance of a family connection, Lewinsky secured an unpaid summer White House internship in the office of White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. Lewinsky moved to Washington, D.C. and took up the position in July 1995. She moved to a paid posting in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in December 1995.
All this shit is inside baseball. Get favors for friends. Make friends by handing out favors. Lewinsky's family clearly had some degree of DC social and financial clout, as her mother had a residence at the fucking Watergate apartment complex in Foggy Bottom. While any kind of unpaid work position is bullshit, its worth noting that people who can access these positions very rarely need the money.