Democratic presidential candidate and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has publicly supported a national minimum wage of $15 an hour, but his official office was advertising full-time internships earlier this summer that only paid his interns $9 an hour.
Bullock took to Twitter last week to call for the minimum wage to be raised by quoting a statement from President Donald Trump back in 2016, where he said, “I don’t know how people make it on $7.25 an hour.”
Galia Slayen, the campaign spokeswoman for Bullock, told Vox last month that Bullock “supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, while recognizing regional differences — in some regions that may not be enough, while in others an increase to $15 over a greater period is warranted.”
While Bullock has been vocal about his support of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, his office was only offering $9 an hour for three full-time internships during the summer 2019 session. The internship posting specified interns would be required to work “at a minimum” from May or June through August in a “full-time capacity” of 40 hours per week. – READ MORE