Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected US House
representative, called out her future colleagues in Congress,
including Democrats, for paying their low-level staffers salaries
below the "living wage" and for employing unpaid interns, even as
members of Congress are paid multiple times more than the average
American.
The incoming New York Democrat, who took service industry jobs to support herself and her family in the years before she ran for office, tweeted that she's met congressional staffers who wait tables to supplement their government wages.
Ocasio-Cortez's tweet came just a few hours after a reporter said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, another New York Democrat, is hiring an unpaid intern. And her message may have made an immediate impact, because later on Monday Schumer's office announced the job posting had been made "in error" and his interns will be paid a stipend in the new congress.
The incoming New York Democrat, who took service industry jobs to support herself and her family in the years before she ran for office, tweeted that she's met congressional staffers who wait tables to supplement their government wages.
Ocasio-Cortez's tweet came just a few hours after a reporter said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, another New York Democrat, is hiring an unpaid intern. And her message may have made an immediate impact, because later on Monday Schumer's office announced the job posting had been made "in error" and his interns will be paid a stipend in the new congress.
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