Pro-abortion groups still listed by Notre Dame as “Internship Opportunities”

Update: University spokesman sidesteps issue; pro-abortion professor calls TFP “monsters.” Confirmed: Some pro-abortion internships are funded by ND Gender Studies. The Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame currently lists the following menu option on its webpage: “How to Find a Summer Internship.”  When students click on that option they are sent to a page titled:  “Summer Internship Opportunities,” which provides live links to pro-abortion groups. (Link) Alerted about this fact, over 10,850 students and parents joined TFP Student Action in politely asking Fr. John I. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, to have the website entries that...

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Can the US Tolerate More Help from the Labor Department?

Given the fact that the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for reporting unemployment statistics each week, and those numbers remain pretty dismal despite some recent gains, you would think the folks running that agency would be bending over backward to help promote and create new employment opportunities. Instead, it's U.S. businesses that the Labor Department has bent over — and it's not to help them get some exercise or stretch their job-creating muscles. Let's review just a few of the major Labor Department announcements during the past three years of the Obama administration. When the president took office, his...

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Obama: Interns for me but not for thee

It is amusing to see the Obama administration creating the image of poorly treated unpaid interns, when Mr. Obama's Organizing for America offered internships to help elect the president in during his presidential campaign and are still offering up unpaid internships today. The Summer organizing program also does not even offer food, transportation, or housing stipends.

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Barack Obama Bans College Internships, But Only in Free Enterprise

I suggested once that Barack Obama is naive when it comes to the American free enterprise system, but let’s just scratch that. The man really is trying to dismantle it and remake it in his own image — that of a law school professor who champions “public interest” work over the business of America, which is to say business itself. This has been happening across America in academia where professors are gladly dismantling programs that teach, for example, law students how to be corporate lawyers and work in business in favor of training up an army of public interest liberals...

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Employers use internships to avoid paying salaries

There is growing evidence that employers are increasing the number of unpaid internships instead of hiring employees.

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Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say

With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor. Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined employers. Last year, M. Patricia Smith, then New York’s labor commissioner, ordered investigations into several firms’ internships. Now, as the federal Labor Department’s top law enforcement official, she and the wage and hour division are stepping up enforcement nationwide. Many regulators say that violations...

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Economy prompts big U.S. banks to slash internships (Bad news for College students(

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jonathan Dunlop managed to score an internship this summer with Morgan Stanley, but some of his Yale University classmates were not so fortunate. Contending with a tough economy and uncertainty in the financial sector, major investment banks have dramatically reduced the number of interns they are employing this summer. "I definitely had a couple of good friends come up empty," said Dunlop, 28, who worked in the fashion industry in New York for five years before enrolling at Yale's School of Management. "It is disappointing because it is such a long recruiting process." Barbara Hewitt said...

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