{"id":181926,"date":"2016-02-09T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/09\/well-this-explains-why-the-young-uns-like-bernie\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:25:00","slug":"well-this-explains-why-the-young-uns-like-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/09\/well-this-explains-why-the-young-uns-like-bernie\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This Explains Why the Young-Uns Like Bernie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>His campaign is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-elections\/only-one-presidential-candidate-pays-their-interns-a6863016.html\">the only Presidential campaign that pays its interns<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Unpaid internships are the bane of many people starting off in life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Employers may argue that professional experience gained via an internship pays for itself &#8211; which is hopefully the case, as most of the presidential candidates are not prepared to pay you to work for them.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has revealed that only one presidential hopeful out of a total of 16 candidates pays their interns.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Sanders, Vermont Senator and Democrat, pays his interns $10.10 per hour, as reported by <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/presidential-candidates-ignore-the-costs-of-unpaid-internships\/2015\/12\/03\/07436850-99d6-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html?postshare=1721455008095630&amp;tid=ss_tw\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Greer, assistant professor of political science at Fordham University, and Alexis Grenell, a political strategist and columnist, hired a student at $15 per hour to find out how each candidate employs interns.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;BTW, the term for the Sanders campaign is doing is, &#8220;Walking the walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His campaign is the only Presidential campaign that pays its interns. Unpaid internships are the bane of many people starting off in life: Employers may argue that professional experience gained via an internship pays for itself &#8211; which is hopefully the case, as most of the presidential candidates are not prepared to pay you to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}