[Governor Dinwiddie]

What a crock. There was a day when young people competed for internships as a way to gain experience and to pad their usually thin résumé. They were grateful to be payed minimum wage.

[redgolum]

Which was a great way to weed out lower class students from getting jobs.

Not every family can afford to have their kid work unpaid.

Most engineering internships are paid. The type of people who become engineers typically don’t work for free.