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Unemployment rate dropsin April; private sector employment grows
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Private sector jobs have grown faster in Indiana in 2012 than in all but a few other states, helping to push unemployment among Hoosiers down to its lowest level since November 2008. Indiana’s unemployment rate in April was 7.9 percent, which was lower than the national rate [...]
State launches ’100 Reasons’ marketing campaign for economicd development
Staff report The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – State officials have launched an online marketing campaign called 100 Reasons Indiana to tell industry executives why the state is a good place to do business. The campaign by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation also asks Hoosiers to submit additional reasons to add to the list. “Every state [...]
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Indiana adds jobs in March; unemployment rate drops
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana added jobs in March while its unemployment rate dropped slightly, according to data released Friday by the state’s Department of Workforce Development. Indiana’s unemployment rate last month was 8.2 percent, which matched the national rate. It was the fourth consecutive month that the state’s jobless rate [...]
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Indiana Grown program will market state’s farm products
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Hog farmer Jay Hawley signed up for the state’s new Indiana Grown program – essentially a marketing effort to promote Hoosier agriculture – just as soon as the applications were available. Hawley and his wife, Sue, have been looking for ways to boost awareness and sales of [...]
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Indiana’s unemployment rate drops, new claims for benefits fall
Staff report The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Unemployment in Indiana dropped in February – bringing the state’s rate to just a tick above the national rate – while new claims for jobless benefits dropped to less than 5,000 for the second week in a row. The state’s February unemployment rate was 8.4 percent. That’s 0.3 [...]
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Amazon to create fulfillment center, add more than 1,000 jobs in Jeffersonville
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Amazon.com announced Tuesday that it will build a new fulfillment center in Jeffersonville and create as many as 1,050 jobs by 2015. Amazon – which recently struck a deal with Gov. Mitch Daniels to begin collecting sales taxes in 2014 on purchases from Hoosiers – said it [...]
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Indiana jobs numbers look positive; unemployment benefits extension to end
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – New jobs numbers show Indiana’s economy is looking up, although that means out-of-work Hoosiers will qualify for fewer weeks of benefits. The state added jobs in January and saw its unemployment rate drop. Meanwhile, federal officials revised Indiana’s job growth numbers for 2011, revising the data up [...]
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Rockport gas plant could face trouble without tax break
By Lesley Weidenbener The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – The $2.65 billion synthetic natural gas plant planned for Rockport might not be viable if the General Assembly fails to approve a tax credit to help finance its construction, according to the speaker of the Indiana House. The House Ways & Means Committee stripped the credit for [...]
Northern Indiana union files right-to-work lawsuit
By Samm Quinn The Statehouse File INDIANAPOLIS – Union members from Northwest Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block Indiana’s right-to-work law. Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the bill into law earlier this month after a year-long debate in both chambers. Representatives of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150 filed the lawsuit in [...]
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Video: Union members protest as the right-to-work bill becomes law
Thousands of protesters came to the Statehouse on Wednesday to protest as the Senate debated and passed a right-to-work bill. Right to work protest at the Indiana Statehouse – Feb. 1, 2012 from The Statehouse File on Vimeo.
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