Indiana's unemployment rate is holding fairly steady.
The state Department of Workforce Development said Friday that the revised seasonally-adjusted unemployment inched up just
one-tenth of a percentage point, to 9.8 percent, for February.
The state's jobless rate has been either 9.8 percent or 9.7 percent the past four months.
Indiana was the only state among its neighbors to report a jobless rate less than 10 percent in February and the only one
of the five to report year-to-year unemployment growing less than one percentage point.
The agency said there were more people working in several employment sectors, including manufacturing and professional and
business services. Workforce Commissioner Teresa Voors said that sector includes temporary staffing, which often predicts
future job growth.
The number of unemployed Hoosiers increased to 329,931 in February from a revised 326,568 in January. The state’s labor
force fell slightly in February, to just under 3.1 million, DWD said.
The state's unemployment rate was 9.5 percent a year ago.
The non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate in the Indianapolis metro area was 9.3 percent in January, up from a revised 8.4 percent in December.
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Affiliated Computer Services, for $profit$ company, has created many of the
core issues. They lack ethical standards of responsibility and accountability
which derives from the top corporate management and oozes down to middle and
lower management. Their management staffs are deficient and uncommitted in
identifying the fundamental problems. Politics is dominant in upper and middle
management, and middle mangers make arbitrary decisions and usually do not
suffer the consequences. Nor are they held responsible for the mess. In other
words, the exploitation and castigation of those working any position other some
form of management will continue. The operative assumption should be that
someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find
out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action to find
initiatives to improve client services, total claim results, operational
efficiency, and staff retention. An effective organizational structure that
would facilitate working relationships between the various entities and have a
set order and control that would enable monitoring of all processes. Using a
â??Divisional Structureâ?? indisputably isnâ??t working. A â??Matrixâ?? type program would
be evidently a more considerable approach.
Our Brothers and our Sisters so desperately are in need of services. They are
being denied their right of benefits in a fallible process. Their subsistence
is being raped by corporate greed; our people waiting 4 months for food and our
people waiting 6 months for health coverage. This company has fabricated their
reports while those in my church congregation suffer and our neighbors and our
children suffer. Itâ??s as bad as the man began approaching a widow in the
congregation for money. Indubitably GROSS NEGLIGENCE.