The unemployment rate among teenagers and college students is at 26percent, and if companies are forced through government regulation topay these interns, companies will look re-work their budgets to be incompliance, and less students will be offered internships. This meansless students can be brought in and gain valuable experience in a workplace environment. The federal government is attempting to change theentire point of gaining work place skills and create yet another under– served demographic of victims falling prey to private sectorcompanies.
It is amusing to see the Obama administration creating the image ofpoorly treated unpaid interns, when Mr. Obama’s Organizing for America offered internships to help elect the president in during his presidential campaign and are still offering up unpaid internships today. The Summer organizing program also does not even offer food, transportation, or housing stipends[.]