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Description: Unpaid internships came under fire after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out fellow colleagues for not paying their interns. Every year, over a million college students and recent grads join the “intern workforce” in hopes of getting the experience necessary to pursue their careers. But, many internships are unpaid, unregulated, and without employee protections. What’s more, not everyone can afford extracurricular job training with no pay, and that puts these students at a disadvantage when they are later seeking jobs. TOPFRIG discusses how this form of unpaid labor came to be, and how to make access to this experience more fair and inclusive. SOURCES & FURTHER READING ProPublica on Obama era regulation propublica.org/article/how-the-labor-department-let-companies-off-hook-for-unpaid-internships Department of Labor’s six factor test dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf Pay Our Interns’ congressional report payourinterns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Payourinternsreport.pdf Matthew Hora’s college internship study ccwt.wceruw.org/documents/CCWT_Results%20from%20the%20College%20Internship%20Study%20at%20University%20of%20Wisconsin-Parkside.pdf Andrew Mark Bennett on unpaid internships papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2188979 CREDITS Produced and Edited by: Isabela Quintero, Dushyant Naresh, Page Ellerson Supervising Producer: Allison Brown Follow Beme on Instagram: instagram.com/bemenews Twitter: twitter.com/bemenews Facebook: facebook.com/officialbeme