Some Hoosier employers are freezing efforts to recruit H-1B workers because they don’t know if the federal government will apply the $100,000 fee to certain applicants.
Rachelle Gardner has worked in the field of adolescent substance-use-disorder treatment and recovery for 35 years—the past 20 as co-founder and executive director of Hope Academy High School.
With both sides showing no signs of movement, it’s unclear how long the stalemate will last—even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers will miss another paycheck and states are sounding warnings that key federal programs will soon lapse completely.
Some 47% of U.S. adults are “not very” or “not at all confident” they could find a good job if they wanted to, an increase from 37% when the question was last asked in October 2023.
The Indianapolis Foundation is ready to invest, inspire and convene—building on what we’ve learned nationally and locally—to make Indianapolis a healthy city for all.
Housing assistance programs are feeling the impact from furloughed public employees, and essential food programs might soon be facing funding problems if the shutdown continues.
The chamber’s lawsuit is not the first against the new visa fee, but it’s significant because it marks the first by the chamber, one of the most powerful and largest business groups in Washington.
States like Indiana must use their own dollars to keep funds flowing to families or let it lapse, a move that could cut benefits for tens of thousands of Hoosiers.
The Office of Management and Budget said thousands of employees would be fired, though it noted that the funding situation was “fluid and rapidly evolving.”
Town leaders are preparing for growth as they’ve seen what being located along major corridors has meant to nearby communities like Fishers, Fortville and McCordsville.
There are society-wide expensive problems, including the ones already highlighted, that do not have a similarly sized market opportunity. But that doesn’t mean there is no market opportunity.
Pressure is growing on congressional leaders to reach a deal as rank-and-file lawmakers become anxious about the lack of progress on ending the shutdown.
Gold futures are up about 50% since the start of 2025—trading as high as $4,013 per troy ounce by late morning Tuesday, before falling back just below $4,000 in the early afternoon.
The project, spearheaded by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and British contractor Eunomia, will replace a 20-year plan that has been in force for more than three decades.
