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In news that won’t come as a surprise to many, a new study from a D.C.-based advocacy organization, Pay Our Interns has found that most young adults interning in congressional offices are white. In a review of more than 8,500 pages of payroll data tracking interns who had paid positions…
This spring, companies in almost all industries were forced to rescind internship offers and cancel programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But early on, health technology company Abbott (No. 8 on the 2020 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list) decided that its high school and college internship programs were…
As part of their internship, Abbott’s (No. 10 on DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity) high school STEM interns learned to create prosthetic hands. The company — ranked No. 14 on DiversityInc’s specialty list, “Top Companies for Mentoring” — offers several internships for high school and college students, ranging in…
President Donald Trump made waves during a White House intern photo op during which time he told a female reporter to “Be quiet.” But now, photos of those very same interns have circulated and become a story of their own due to the blatant message the photo sends: the White…
By Moses Frenck Photo by Shutterstock It’s a little known fact that interns in the workplace are not protected from discrimination under the law, and some members of Congress are seeking to change that by extending civil rights protections to unpaid interns who work for federal or state governments or…