Internships are jobs that college students take on, usually during the summer. Interns learn what a job is like while assisting in basic tasks. Because interns usually have only basic responsibilities while learning on the job, companies often don’t pay interns. This is not right. Businesses who hire interns should pay them a living wage.
Students working as interns still need to pay bills and still need to eat. Businesses argue that students are paid by earning valuable skills through their internships. There is no guarantee, however, that these valuable skills will lead to a job at the end of college. And those valuable skills don’t pay for groceries and electricity.
A living wage does pay for those basic necessities. And a living wage is not that expensive for a business to pay. Interns who do just the basic amount of work cover the cost of a living wage. Most of the time, however, interns do much more the basic amount of work. They more than make up their value to a business through lots of sweat and late hours.
Businesses that do not pay interns need only look to their competition. Law firms pay their summer associates well. And 18-year-old college students are making thousands of dollars to intern as computer coders and programmers in Silicon Valley!
-Excerpted from "The Golden Ticket" by Anjay Zuckerberg
Which of the following is weak evidence for the claim that businesses need to pay their interns a living wage?
Silicon Valley firms pay students thousands of dollars a month to code and program.
There is no guarantee that the skills interns develop over the course of an internship will translate to a job.
Interns usually more than cover their value through lots of sweat and late hours.
Interns are usually students who are earning little to no money who still need to eat and pay bills.
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Identify weak evidence