The tentative contract includes pay increases, a cost-of-living adjustment for all employees and better retirement benefits.

Each month, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development releases a report with the latest state and local labor market data.

Indiana is in the midst of a five-year reduction of its individual income tax rate. A bill unanimously approved by a Senate committee Tuesday would continue to cut the rate after that — but only if state revenues grow.

Companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are building large data centers in Indiana for AI. Each one requires power 24/7 — and a lot of it. But Indiana utilities weren’t anticipating this when they made plans to get more power from sources like wind and solar. Data centers could delay utilities’ efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Hoosiers on unemployment insurance could see the maximum length of benefits cut nearly in half under a new proposal heard in a Senate committee.

Ball State University's economist says COVID-19 is still affecting the economy and will likely do so through 2022. The most visible sign could be a continuing increase in the number of jobs done remotely.

Indiana economists forecast that shortages in the supply chain and workforce will continue in 2022.

Ball State's Michael Hicks says the U.S. economic growth of -4.6 percent in 2020 is the worst since 1946, when the country lost wartime manufacturing contracts.

Only 42 percent of Hoosiers have what is considered a good paying job according to a new report released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution.

Researchers say the state is at full employment, and they expect it to remain that way through 2019.