INDY BEACONS: Charles DeBow, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen
At a time when Black Americans had few job options, DeBow dreamed of flying and beat the odds to achieve his dream.
At a time when Black Americans had few job options, DeBow dreamed of flying and beat the odds to achieve his dream.
Teachers say they are rallying for better working conditions, higher pay, increased funding for public school classrooms, less emphasis on standardized testing and more respect.
Roughly one-third of American workers say they’ve changed how they act at work in the past year, as the #MeToo movement has focused the nation’s attention on sexual misconduct and highlighted issues of racial and ethnic diversity.
Since the first pager was patented in 1949 and used in New York’s Jewish Hospital, millions of doctors have done their daily rounds in hospitals with the gadget clipped to their waistband, always ready to hear the beep that might signal a medical crisis on the other end. But hospitals are now phasing them out.
The proposed tax abatement is related to a $91 million investment the company is making in a building at the Lilly Technology Center on Kentucky Avenue.
In a county known for its affluence, the clinic has become a lifeline for the working poor and the small businesses that employ them.
Jessica Fraser leads the only statewide program in Indiana that combines research and policy analysis on federal and state legislation, public policies and programs affecting low-income working families.
Nearly 650 Indianapolis-area janitors represented by the Service Employees International Union work for just eight firms that clean downtown office buildings.
Had districts kept their non-teacher hiring in line with student growth—and invested the rest in their teachers—Hoosier educators could be making around $25,000 more per year.
Microsoft said Thursday that it will begin requiring its contractors to offer their U.S. employees paid leave to care for a new child.
Strategic Capital Partners and Goodwill Industries are partnering on complex intended to diversify downtown rental market.
The finance update outlines a plan for cutting nearly $21 million from the cash-strapped district’s $269 million general fund budget for 2018-19.
Sen. Jim Tomes' bill would send people to jail for up to a year and fine them as much as $5,000 if they were convicted of entering a bathroom that does not match up with their birth gender.
Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana Inc. is appealing a decision by the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center that would put 63 janitors and their four managers out of work by Aug. 1.
Life lessons can be learned in every job, no matter how humble.
Wayne Township, Perry Township and Beech Grove school officials say they need tax increases to provide relief from property tax caps the Legislature passed in 2010.
Part-time and contract jobs in the past tended to rise during recessions and recede during recoveries. But maybe no longer: Part-time workers have accounted for more than 10 percent of U.S. job growth since the recession officially ended in June 2009.
Challenging lawmakers to help him create greater economic opportunity, President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address Tuesday to announce he's raising the minimum wage for new federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour.
Not-for-profit staffs and boards occasionally stub their toes by “firing” or replacing longtime volunteers.
The last 10 years, we’ve watched this same elite lead us off a cliff—mostly by being too smart for its own good.