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The Edge: The Best Ways to Spend Some of the Billions in Biden’s Big Jobs Proposal (subject line below is just proposed for now

A new study of online internships shows that, among more than 10,000 students at 11 colleges, most virtual internships last year went to students in middle- and upper-income families, and more positions were unpaid than paid. The analysis, by the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, also found higher levels of dissatisfaction with virtual internships versus in-person ones, mostly due to limited opportunities for engagement and learning.