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...lose early battles, and we have lost some," he says. "We're encouraging change at the very local level - in cities, in towns." The goal, he adds, is to "create a farm team, so that four or six years from now, we have people with experience" who can mount credible campaigns themselves. (See "Will Too Many Tea Partyers Spoil the Revolution...
...legality of unpaid internships at domestic, for-profit companies are under scrutiny the New York Times reported Friday, but this may not be a major issue for Harvard students seeking summer internships, according to Robin Mount, director of the Office of Career, Research, and International Opportunities...
...Mount said 35 percent of internships in the OCS job database, Crimson Careers, are unpaid. She added that most of these are likely for non-profit organizations that can legally accept volunteer work or for firms abroad not covered by U.S. labor...
...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...