Half of the workers who comprise the Massachusetts workforce hold at least a bachelor's degree, and the wage gap between workers with degrees and those without continues to widen, as sighted in a report from the Mass Budget and Policy Center.

In 1979, the median hourly wage (mhw) of a worker with a bachelor's degree was 49 percent higher than the mhw of a worker who did not attend college. As of 2016, that number had increased to 99 percent higher with the mhw of a worker with a high school degree at $15.12 and the mhw for a worker with a bachelor's degree or higher at $30.11.  The report stated, "Expanding access to higher education can benefit both individual students and the overall state economy." 

At Beverly Bootstraps, we have always taught our clients that education is the key to success.  After we help our Adult Education students get their high school equivalency certificates, we stress the value of continuing education and are happy to see so many enroll in community and 4-year colleges after they leave us.

* Salem News, Thurs, Aug 24, 2017, Link between education 

and pay growing stronger in Mass., report finds

  

For your shopping and donating convenience, the Thrift Shop is now open Monday through Thursday until 7pm. You can now stop by after dinner or on your way home from work. 

You now also have more nights to choose from if you and your group of co-workers, club members, friends looking to do a good deed, etc, want to volunteer in the Thrift Shop. We always need groups of 5-8 volunteers from 5:30pm - 7:30pm to help get merchandise ready to go out on the sales floor. For more information, please email Volunteer Coordinator Leslie Colten or call 978-927-1561.