March 21, 2008

Will Work for Academic Credit

By BEN YAGODA

Summer internships, often unpaid, are good career moves. But they should be affordable for all students.

Thanks to a skewed reading of a well-meaning but misguided federal statute, a dozen students of mine will have to needlessly cough up $2,300 each this summer for the privilege of working without pay.

Everyone knows that internships are important for college students' eventual success in the job market. It is also the case that in certain areas — politics,

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