Warren Campaign’s Volunteer Fellowship Program a ‘Scam,’ Applicants Claim

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Breitbart

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) campaign is under fire for allegedly misleading applicants of the campaign’s volunteer fellowship program, according to a report from the Daily Beast.

Two Warren supporters who applied for the program described the process as both “deceptive” and “exploitative.”

According to the Daily Beast:

They said they were pushed toward unpaid positions over paid ones, misled over the availability of financial assistance, and asked to sign highly restrictive nondisclosure agreements that worker advocacy groups concede are irregular. Both applicants verified their accounts with emails and text messages from the Warren campaign.

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Like other Democrats running for the White House, Warren’s campaign offers paid internships. But unlike many others, the campaign also offers volunteer fellowships and volunteer fellowships for academic credit.

Seton Hall University senior Jonathan Nendze, who was accepted into the program, described it as a “great scam,” telling the Daily Beast that the unpaid volunteers were essentially expected to “function as a paid intern.”

“What was sold to me was very different than it actually was,” Nendze said.

“The way they always communicated it was always fellow/intern, like they were synonymous,” he continued. “Their application kind of took advantage of people who were really eager to get experience.”

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Well, they certainly got an education...