The Massachusetts AFL-CIO awarded more than 500 scholarships during its annual banquet last weekend. Jesse Russell reports:

Expressing a commitment to higher education, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO presented $1 million dollars worth of scholarships during the organization's annual banquet. More than 200 students benefited from the massive presentation. For the past 50 years, the organization has been awarding scholarship money to high school students moving on to college. Over the past nine years, Massachusett's AFL has given out more than $7 million in scholarship money. Studies suggest that workers with a college education earn 45 percent more on average than workers without.