{"id":534473,"date":"2021-05-21T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=534473"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:20:24","slug":"white-house-economic-council-deletes-unpaid-internship-post-following-dcnf-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-economic-council-deletes-unpaid-internship-post-following-dcnf-report\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Economic Council Deletes Unpaid Internship Post Following DCNF Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-economic-council-deletes-unpaid-internship-post-following-dcnf-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=534473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1318005754-scaled-e1621629090921.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The White House Council of Economic Advisers deleted its entire internship page after the Daily Caller News Foundation reported that the office offered exclusively unpaid positions despite calling for a higher federal minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), which crafts the Biden administration\u2019s economic policies, deleted all mention of its internship program sometime between Thursday and Friday afternoon. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/cea\/work-for-us\/intern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">webpage<\/a> where the unpaid internships were posted currently shows an error message and its general \u201cwork for us\u201d page no longer mentions the internship program.<\/p>\n<p>The unpaid internships were open to undergraduate and graduate students with an economic background who could assist White House advisers, the DCNF <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/white-house-economic-advisers-minimum-wage-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> on Thursday. President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/02\/25\/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pushed<\/a> for raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/white-house-economic-advisers-minimum-wage-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Economic Office Pushing For Higher Minimum Wage Offers Unpaid Internships)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one in America should work 40 hours a week making below the poverty line,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/01\/22\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-american-rescue-plan-and-signing-of-executive-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> at the White House on Jan. 22. \u201cFifteen dollars gets people above the poverty line. We have so many millions of people working 40 hours a week \u2014 working \u2014 and some with two jobs, and they\u2019re still below the poverty line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office\u2019s tweet announcing the positions hasn\u2019t been deleted as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.425\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Council of Economic Advisers is currently looking for interns for the fall semester. Please see details here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/guqETrcAOE\">https:\/\/t.co\/guqETrcAOE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Council of Economic Advisers (@WhiteHouseCEA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouseCEA\/status\/1395392584978153474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aaron Sojourner, a former CEA economist, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronsojourner\/status\/1395402892903866368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> the office for not offering paid internships after the announcement. He said the office should \u201cremedy\u201d its error.<\/p>\n<p>The labor advocacy group Pay Our Interns and more than 270 former White House interns wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/payourinterns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WH-Interns-Should-Be-Paid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> to Biden in December, asking him to pledge that federal government interns would be paid in his administration. The group, like Sojourner, argued that unpaid internships perpetuate inequities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur country\u2019s racial, social, and economic inequities existed long before the coronavirus; COVID-19 made them impossible to ignore,\u201d the letter said. \u201cThe fact is, unpaid internships perpetuate those inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey prevent young people of color and low socioeconomic status from gaining valuable professional experience because they cannot afford to work for free,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The CEA didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Council of Economic Advisers deleted its entire internship page after the Daily Caller News Foundation reported that the office offered exclusively unpaid positions despite calling for a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312637,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1318005754-scaled-e1621629090921.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Economic Council Deletes Unpaid Internship Post Following DCNF Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1318005754-scaled-e1621629090921.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Economic Council Deletes Unpaid Internship Post Following DCNF Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}