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...State-ers. Industry officials are even more optimistic, saying that each casino could generate up to 12,000 construction jobs and 7,000 permanent ones in the service sector thereafter. The state could ensure that job creation is maximized by requiring casino developers to invest a high minimum amount of money in the construction, perhaps around $500 million or even more. Such a requirement would also go a long way toward preventing the seediness that is popularly associated with gambling and instead fostering a luxury resort experience...
Federal and Massachusetts labor laws include standards unpaid internships must meet to be exempt from federal and state minimum wage laws. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, unpaid internships at for-profit firms must fulfill six criteria. Among them, the experience must offer vocational training and not provide “immediate advantage to the employer...
Mount said OCS does not check if opportunities posted on Crimson Careers comply with minimum wage standards. “We’re not really in the business of scrutinizing all the internships that come to us,” she said. “It’s a sort of self-post system...
...related problem that Harvard students seeking internships sometimes face is that some unpaid opportunities require students to receive academic credit in order to comply with minimum wage laws. Mount said that Harvard does not grant academic credit for internships, though students have arranged for independent studies with faculty in the past...
Unable to recover from financial woes and scandal, community-organizing group ACORN announced March 22 it was disbanding. Since 1970 the group had fought to raise the minimum wage, counseled low-income homeowners and registered the poor to vote. In September a video sting operation run by conservative activists hit the group hard: Congress cut its funding, the Census dropped its partnership, and donations plunged...