Even "internships" are on shakey legal ground; hospital interns in Boston are forming a union.
Somewhat OT, but an Intern in a hospital is not some college student who makes coffee. Interns are MDs in their first year out of med school. They work terrible hours (60-100/week), get paid jack s**t, and have a tremendous amount of stress. They're still being trained (it takes 3-7yrs AFTER med school to become a fully certified doctor), so technically they are students recieving a stipend, not employees recieving a salary. This lets the hospitals ignore minimum wage laws, etc.
Since no one ever reads them.
One of my favorite movies is about a president who falls in love with a lobbyist.
Dude. That wasn't a movie, it was CNN.