Justin Hicks
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Public schools will soon be able to hire professionals without teaching experience under a new law signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb. Lawmakers designed it to fill vacant teacher jobs, but opponents worry it will hurt education quality.
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A Indiana nonprofit for veterans dealing with housing insecurity is being ordered to pay nearly $90,000 to caregivers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the organization violated a new minimum wage requirement for federal contractors.
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Health care workers in Indiana saw a noticeable jump in workplace injuries and illness in 2020, according to OSHA data. Much of that was likely due to the exposure doctors and nurses had to COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.
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Indiana continues to break state records for low unemployment as it fell to just 2.4 percent in January. But there’s a flip side to that statistic: the rate of Hoosiers 16 and older participating in the workforce stayed flat.
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Gov. Eric Holcomb joined President Joe Biden and others this week to call for a bill in Congress to create more semiconductor manufacturing jobs. They’re calling it a “bipartisan innovation act” – but lawmakers haven’t finalized language to vote on yet.
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The Indiana Commission for Higher Education unanimously voted Thursday to name Chris Lowery the new agency head.
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Schools can now apply for grants of up to $100,000 to support classes in digital manufacturing methods. The effort aims to usher students and companies into what some call the fourth industrial revolution.
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A group in rural southwest Indiana was recently selected to participate in a national workforce development program. The Lawrence County Workforce Coalition aims to increase education and job pathways for rural, low-income residents.
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Black leaders from across the state on Monday criticized legislation near the finish line that would affect everything from education to the environment at the NAACP’s annual legislative day at the Statehouse.
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House lawmakers cut language out of a bill that would create a statewide program to attract remote workers to Indiana. Instead, it repeated language in another bill that allows local groups to create workforce funds for the same purpose.