Idea is to find workers green jobs and retrain those who lose auto-related ones
Indiana is among three states sharing a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to help workers find green jobs and retrain workers affected by the automobile industry contraction, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday.
The State Labor Market Information Improvement [...]
Congress answers Realtors’ prayers
Congress’ recent extension and expansion of homebuyer tax credits is already bringing out buyers and may help extend the current modest rally in home sales, according to local real estate agents.
“It has been pretty active out there,” said Tim Reed, a Realtor with Century 21 Pace Estates in Valparaiso. “I was hoping [...]
State legislators return to Statehouse with reform on their minds
Reform was the word on everybody’s lips Tuesday at the Statehouse.
A brief “organization day” meeting of the General Assembly saw the introduction of proposals to add property tax caps to the Indiana Constitution, impose stricter limits and reporting requirements on lobbying and delay a scheduled hike [...]
Indiana is dipping into a wide range of state funds, including several devoted to improving or protecting the environment and natural resources, as part of its latest steps to offset a steep drop in state revenues.
Twenty-three dedicated funds are on an initial list that Gov. Mitch Daniels’ administration expects to tap to combat the revenue [...]
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Indiana one of handful of states “emerging” from recession, according to prominent forecasting firm; nearly all NWI casinos post October revenue gains, even as Majestic goes into loan default; officials in Schneider [...]
Efforts to grow Indiana’s economy during a rough recession are starting to pay off: Moody’s Economy.com, an economic forecasting firm, recently said Indiana is one of 11 states “emerging” from recession. Gov. Mitch Daniels said it’s because Indiana is “fighting this recession to win.”
The Obama administration’s mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says, but most of those borrowers are on temporary trial plans that have yet to be made final.
As of the end of October, more than 650,000 borrowers, or 20 percent of those eligible, had signed up for trials lasting [...]
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As unemployment tops 10 percent for the first time since 1983, Indiana economists predict a weak recovery in 2010; despite voters’ dislike of regional transit district, area businesspeople favor mass transit; local [...]
A ceremonial groundbreaking Monday in Schererville marked the start of several town projects that stimulus money partly is funding.
Members of the St. John Utility Board joined Schererville officials as well as contractors and engineers outside the town’s wastewater treatment plant, where the bulk of upcoming shovel-ready infrastructure projects will take place.
A preconstruction conference is scheduled [...]
Play encourages NWI leaders to work together to improve quality of life in region
As he crossed real or imagined county lines talking to leaders across Northwest Indiana’s seven counties—Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Pulaski and Starke—Ivy Tech Chancellor J. Guadalupe Valtierra said the predominant message he found is that communication, cooperation and collaboration are important [...]
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