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Steve Obert: Immigration reform key to addressing farm labor shortage
Parents across the country are scrambling to find baby formula. They’re also seeing higher prices at the store for milk, cheese and ice cream. Congress can help address food shortages and inflation over the long term by passing common-sense immigration reforms. If dairy farmers could hire guest workers, we would have the skilled workers we […]
Raquel Richardson: Consider skills, not just degrees, in hiring workers
If your company is in hiring mode, you’re likely aware of the buzz about skills-based hiring. As a TechPoint board member and an executive with a company in hiring mode, I’m supportive of the approach. The numbers are clear: We eliminate 75% of the Hoosiers who are qualified and experienced to do many open tech […]
Indiana finishes fiscal year with more than $6 billion in reserves
The news comes as state lawmakers prepare to consider Gov. Eric Holcomb’s proposal to send $1 billion to taxpayers in the form of $225 refund checks.
Uber could face suit by 500-plus female passengers over sexual assault complaints
Uber has long defended itself by asserting that it can’t be held responsible for behavior of its drivers, who aren’t employees but rather are contractors.
New 988 hotline is the 911 for mental health emergencies
The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline goes live on Saturday. Instead of a dispatcher sending police, firefighters or paramedics, 988 will connect callers with trained mental health counselors.
GOP abortion legislation still under wraps as special session looms
The Republican-dominated Legislature is expected to further restrict abortions during its special session starting July 25, but how far GOP lawmakers will go remains unknown.
In hybrid schedules, Fridays in the office are increasingly lonely
The last day of the workweek, once synonymous with long lunches and early departures, has become the most common day to skip the office altogether.
Indiana ponders implementation of electric vehicle charger networks
It is part of a nationwide push to add at least 50,000 chargers for electric vehicles. Indiana will receive almost $100 million in federal funding with an explicit push to prioritize disadvantaged communities and rural areas.
U.S. retail sales top forecast, keeping big Fed rate hike in focus
Nine of the 13 retail categories showed increases last month, according to the report, including furniture stores, e-commerce and sporting-goods stores.
Brian Schutt: Growing entrepreneurship requires growing support
Current and future lawmakers should consider tax reforms that create more simplicity and consistency during the critical infancy stage.
Whitley Yates: Planting seeds to support small businesses
Data suggests that access to capital, specifically for Black entrepreneurs, is a key obstacle in growing and scaling our business.
Marshawn Wolley: Whom do Americans trust? Small business
Small businesses create community—which might be harder for other institutions to mimic in the same way.
Shariq Siddiqui: Not-for-profit colleges should be scrutinized more
It is critical that we discuss the role expensive, private, not-for-profit colleges and universities play in making the student loan problem worse.
Claire Fiddian-Green: Indiana needs to hyperfocus on education
We must … take decisive actions to remove the barriers that prevent too many people from achieving the American dream.
Dr. Richard Feldman: Proposed rules on cigarettes would improve health
The tobacco industry has aggressively marketed menthol cigarettes (like Newport and Kool) to minority groups.
Jim Shella: As pollster, Vargus left big impact on politics
Politicians questioned the sample sizes, the methodology and Brian’s integrity. But they couldn’t shop their numbers freely anymore.
Deborah Daniels: America is still the land of hope, opportunity
I still believe we live in the best nation in the world, with the greatest opportunities for individual achievement.
Jennifer Wagner Chartier: Government can learn from the Disney way
Service is presented not as a moment in time but as a continuum.
Brad Rateike: Should we extend gratuity to more professions?
Why are we not eager to reward those who perform jobs we are otherwise incapable of doing ourselves?