Opinion: Unpaid Scholarships at Justice Department ‘Misguided And Unethical’

By Sarah Mahmood
PolicyMic.com

If you naively thought that the unpaid internship grind would end after college, when all your uncompensated hard work would land you a fancy job upon graduation, you thought wrong.

Forget college, it apparently doesn’t even end after graduate school. What’s even more disheartening is that not only is this practice sanctioned by the government, in this case it is the government: the Department of Justice (DoJ) has currently employed 96 unpaid assistant attorneys, and its jobs website features advertisements for 12 more such positions.

For a Department charged with looking after the public interest, this is a misguided and unethical policy.

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