No wonder Millennials are skeptical of Hillary Clinton’s honesty.
While the Democratic presidential candidate has in the past expressed her frustration with unpaid internships, Hillary obviously approves of the temporary positions enough to allow the Clinton Foundation to make use of unpaid interns, as points out The Daily Beast.
During her remarks at the University of California at Los Angeles last year — a speech Clinton was paid $300,000 to deliver — Hillary declared, “Businesses have taken advantage of unpaid internships to an extent that it is blocking the opportunities for young people to move on into paid employment.”
“More businesses need to move their so-called interns to employees,” the former secretary of State affirmed.
Unfortunately, the FAQs section of the Clinton Foundation website suggests that Hillary sings a different tune when it comes to her own charity.
Not only does the organization refuse to promise permanent paid employment after internships, but it also merely provides a stipend for individuals only when they qualify for financial assistance.
“The Clinton Foundation makes no promises or commitments of employment after the internship,” reads the website. “No intern is entitled to a job at the conclusion of his/her internship experience.”
The foundation, which requires interns work between 24 and 40 hours during the fall and spring and between 30 and 40 hours during the summer, offers stipends to interns who demonstrate “financial need.”
The stipends range from $1,000 to $2,000 for a four-month period depending on whether the intern has to move to New York City for the position.
Anyone who has even minor knowledge of New York City living costs knows that $2,000 might not even cover one month, let alone four.
Alas, unpaid internships can be added to the list of several issues on which Hillary Clinton waxes hypocritically: Obamacare, youth jobs, college cost, foreign policy, and equal pay.
