World Blog by humble servant.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has promised to pay her congressional interns at least $15 an hour. Her pledge comes days after she slammed her future colleagues in both parties for employing unpaid interns and for not paying staffers a "living wage." "Very few members of Congress actually pay their interns. We will be one of them," she said Tuesday. A 2017 report found that just 8% of Republicans and 3.6% of Democrats in the House pay their interns.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that she will pay her congressional interns at least $15 an hour after slamming her future colleagues for offering unpaid internships and failing to pay staff a "living wage."

"Time to walk the walk," the Democratic congresswoman-elect tweeted on Tuesday. "Very few members of Congress actually pay their interns. We will be one of them."

She tweeted a link to an article in the Washington Post in which her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, confirmed that interns in her office would be paid "at least" $15 an hour.

Ocasio-Cortez's pledge comes a day after she criticized her future colleagues in Congress, including Democrats, for not paying interns.