The left is hell-bent to insure that no young people work. have experiences or education outside of their ideological influence.
Everyone must be fully dependent on Big Brother.
Free internships are almost the only way that a recent graduate will gain real work experience. The lefty complaint about internships is that they would prefer to see more on the job training without all the prerequisites of degrees. It’s a way to try to force private business to hire people for jobs and get the businesses to foot the bill for the education and training.