Council committee OKs proposal tracking federal pandemic relief spending
Proposal 58 is a rare Republican-led initiative to gain traction in a legislative body with a 20-5 Democratic supermajority.
Proposal 58 is a rare Republican-led initiative to gain traction in a legislative body with a 20-5 Democratic supermajority.
Restaurant owners want Congress to replenish the fund, and they want Indiana’s senators to sign on to a proposal that would provide cash to original applicants who were left high and dry.
Congress would lift onerous budget requirements that have helped push the Postal Service deeply into debt and would require it to continue delivering mail six days per week under bipartisan legislation the House approved Tuesday.
Senate Bill 361 would make it possible for the Indiana Economic Development Corp. to create districts across the state to capture sites for large-scale economic development projects.
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears, a Democrat, filed his candidacy to retain his office on Wednesday. His announcement came one day after Republican Cyndi Carrasco, former deputy general counsel for Gov. Eric Holcomb, announced her candidacy.
Navient, a major student loan collecting company, agreed to cancel $1.7 billion in debt owed by more than 66,000 borrowers across the United States and pay over $140 million in other penalties to settle allegations of abusive lending practices.
Medicare officials stressed Tuesday that they did not take cost into account in the coverage decision, but rather whether Aduhelm is “reasonable and necessary” for treating Alzheimer’s patients enrolled in the program.
Most people say the sharply higher prices for goods and services in recent months have had at least a minor effect on their financial lives, including about 4 in 10 who say the hit has been substantial.
Tehea Harding oversees EmployIndy’s fiscal and administrative functions, including human resources, accounting, grants and contracts, and IT facilities.
Deanna Oware’s job as a member of the leadership team for the Indiana Department of Workforce Development is to ensure effective operation of the finance department’s procurement, accounting and payroll, budget, grant accounting, and analysis and reconciliation units. Finance
The Indiana Forest Alliance was scheduled to release Dec. 3 a report that maps all 4,237 private forests in Indianapolis that are larger than one acre—and evaluates them for environmental, ecological and social benefits.
Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day.
The compromise would allow Medicare to negotiate some prescription drug prices but significantly scale back Democrats’ earlier ambitions.
Just 35% of Americans now call the national economy good, while 65% call it poor, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen predicted that the deal on new international tax rules, with a minimum global tax, will benefit American businesses and workers and “end the damaging race to the bottom on corporate taxation.”
Top Democratic leaders are signaling a deal is within reach even though momentum fizzled and tempers flared late Wednesday after a billionaires’ tax and a paid family leave program fell out of the Democrats’ sweeping bill.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s upbeat comments came as President Biden and Democrats try to strike agreement soon on his big proposal, now about $1.75 trillion in social services and climate change programs
Ronda Shrewsbury founded RealAmerica 26 years ago to develop affordable housing after she grew up “extremely poor.”
President Joe Biden said Monday he’s hopeful the talks with Congress can wrap up overall agreement on the package this week. It’s tallying at least $1.75 trillion, and could still be more.
Many well-meaning American donor organizations have organized and financed community water projects in poorer nations. Too often these efforts have failed.