In exchange for caring for your boss' children and caring out light housekeeping or cooking duties, au pair positions offer a chance to travel abroad with room and board and a livingstipend.
If a flutist can receive a full music scholarship from a college that can even include a livingstipend and also play professionally at Carnegie Hall and be honored for vigorously pursuing her talents, why are college athletes bound to a one-sided contractual relationship with their universities, in the name of amateurism?
The OSEB aims at weaning unemployed residents away from the idea that they can make a living only by working for someone else and instead gives them a stipend and training to help prepare them to become self-sufficient entrepreneurs and small-business people.