Christine Brunkhorst, a former English teacher in Minneapolis, writes in the Star Tribune that working for free might give you a toehold toward your career, but comes with a cost for society: "Unpaid internships give a leg up to the well-off. As a teacher hoping to send students into the larger world with sympathetic imaginations — and if not yet a kinship for people of lesser means then at least an awareness of their plight — I find this omission disappointing."
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