it's like doing household chores: they won't even pay us to work for free...

from the associated press. pretty scary.

MADISON, Wis. - The recession has made finding work so difficult that the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School set up a job fair to help third-year law students find unpaid work.

The law school's assistant dean for career services says more students are graduating without jobs or being forced to delay their start dates at firms that have hired them.

Jane Heymann says that means governments and nonprofits have a surplus of applicants for volunteer positions. In some cases, they can get graduates to work free for up to a year.

Steve Means of the Wisconsin Department of Justice says he interviewed 10 or 11 law students at the volunteer fair but will likely take only three.