Sixty-one percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job offer; only 38 percent of unpaid interns working at for-profit companies did. And paid interns netted higher starting salaries.

That’s Jean Chatzky, writing in Newsweek, on why students shouldn’t take unpaid internships.

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