Amid agency budgets cuts and declining social work enrollments, unpaid internships continue to lower the wage floor.
Anyone who has ever interacted with New York City’s vast social welfare system has probably come into contact with a social work student. For those who haven’t, it might come as a surprise that much of the case management, housing stabilization, crisis intervention and counseling services for people who are low-income, criminal legal system-involved, experiencing homelessness, or disabled...
