Lawmakers call on Congress to pay interns amid calls to diversify staff.
recalled her stint as an unpaid congressional intern. "I worked three part-time jobs so that I could do that unpaid internship. And I had to work. I had rent to pay. I was contributing to bills in my family's household. "
Congressional Democratic candidate Ayanna Pressley addresses supporters during a Democratic Party Unity Rally at the Cambridge Community Center in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 9, 2018. In the House, paid internships were even harder to find, nearly 90 percent of offices didn't pay interns. Only 8 percent of Republicans and 3.6 percent of Democrats set aside funding.
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