“Unpaid internships leave out those students who economically can’t pay their own way — it’s deepening economic inequality,” says Pay Our Interns co-founder Carlos Mark Vera. - NBCLatino
Researchers surveyed more than 22,000 students from 470 colleges and universities in their 2019 Student Survey Report and found that just 10 percent of all graduating Latino seniors have had internships, compared to 71 percent of non-Hispanic white students. The study also found that 10.2 percent of Latinos are in unpaid internships.
Some places offer college credit in lieu of stipends. But Pay Our Interns and other advocates say that is problematic, because not only are they asking students to pay to work, but it's also unworkable for students who can't afford to take on more tuition debt. "This has negative impacts on diversity and inclusion for the organization hiring the interns and for the future employability of candidates who cannot find the means to apply," he said.
Pay Our Interns has successfully lobbied for paid internships on Capitol Hill. Aside from lobbying for more paid internships in the White House and federal agencies, it's expanding its efforts on the state level and to the nonprofit sector. “Some of these nonprofits have budgets of tens of millions of dollars, and they don’t pay their interns. We’re focusing on those bigger ones, because they set the tone for the rest of the nonprofit sector," Vera said.
“If I were to do it over, I wouldn’t have done it without getting paid,” Naraine said. He has had some help from his parents and scholarship funds from his university to pay for living and working in Washington.
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