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Comment author: advael 23 September 2015 11:02:04PM 1 point [-]

That's not exactly true. You can volunteer for far less than the minimum wage (Some would say infinitely less) if you want to. What you can't do is employ someone for some non-zero amount of money that's lower than the minimum wage.

Comment author: James_Miller 24 September 2015 05:19:27AM 1 point [-]

The Obama administration is making it difficult for businesses to use non-paid interns to do the kind of work that paid employees do.