Ivanka Trump, champion of working women, does not pay her interns
For a minute there, it looked like Ivanka Trump was going to be the savior of her father's campaign. The elegant, accomplished eldest daughter of Donald Trump was seen as a positive influence on her more boorish father, whether it was tailoring his child-care plan or exhibiting general, approachable poise or even being an effective surrogate for supporting working women.
In fact, Ivanka Trump describes her namesake business as "the ultimate destination for Women Who Work," and she has a dedicated page on her website as well as a custom hashtag for the cause. The logic follows, then, that Trump must be a giving, empowering employer of young women, yes?
Not quite: On Thursday, Trump tweeted out a post from her website touting tips for "how to make it work as an unpaid intern." And these aren't generic tips from finance experts or random college grads, but rather a post led by the copy intern for Trump's own business. Intern Quincy Bulin surveyed three of her fellow Ivanka Trump interns on how they make ends meet while making no money for their summer labor — and lest you think these young women are speaking only from past experiences, Bulin writes that summer 2016 (you know, the one she's spending working for Ivanka Trump) is her third unpaid summer in New York.
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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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