At peak, Meta estimates the Lebanon project will create 4,000 construction jobs, making Indianapolis an ideal location to act as a pilot site for the bootcamps.
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Hiring has bounced back this year from a miserable 2025, showing resilience in the face of economic uncertainty and painfully high energy prices caused by the Iran war.
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The Labor Department’s April report showed the highest number of openings since May 2024.
At GE Appliances’ sprawling industrial headquarters in Louisville — only about a dozen miles away from the Indiana border — hundreds of jobs are coming home.
The recent uptick in hiring raises hopes that the job market will break out of a recent rut – in which Americans who have jobs are relatively secure from layoffs but jobseekers struggle to find work.
The report showed signs that employers had begun to regain confidence in stable business conditions following the volatile policy swings of the first year of the second Trump administration.
The drugmaker called the move a “difficult decision” but did not provide a reason for the cuts.
Health care, which has been buoying the labor market for months, lost 28,000 positions in February, reflecting major strikes in California and New York. The information sector, which includes tech and media, shed 11,000 positions.
Without health care and related jobs, the United States would have nearly 400,000 fewer jobs than it did a year ago, according to Labor Department figures through January.
While tech companies continue to invest billions of dollars into AI, they’re slashing jobs while touting AI-forward strategies and leaner organizations.
Under the partnership, Butler University students will receive real-life experience in hospitality and entertainment, and real-life experiences and practical skills in marketing, social media and communications.
Economists were encouraged by the lower unemployment rate, which had risen in the previous four straight reports.
The report suggests that the “low-hire, low-fire” job market remains in effect, with workers enjoying some job security but those out of work struggling to find new jobs.
The rise of artificial intelligence is not only affecting how people work—it’s also shaping the job market itself, especially for graduates in search of their first professional jobs.
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.
More than a quarter of the jobless have been out of work more than a half-year—the highest share since the mid-2010s excluding the pandemic-era years.
SMC is Noblesville’s largest private employer with about 1,200 employees and operates a 345-acre North American headquarters campus north of 146th Street and west of Howe Road.
Another report showed consumer confidence fell in September to a five-month low on concerns about a cooling labor market and the broader economy.
Though the overall growth was modest, clean-vehicle employment remains one of the stronger performing subsectors in Indiana.
A reduction in force would not only lay off employees but eliminate their positions, which would trigger yet another massive upheaval in a federal workforce that has already faced major rounds of cuts this year.
The Indiana Creative Economy Summit is scheduled for Oct. 13-14 at the Fishers Art Center. A music-themed partner event, the NIVA Live Policy Summit hosted by the National Independent Venue Association, is scheduled Oct. 15-16 at Fountain Square’s Hi-Fi venue.
The restructuring, which would eliminate 11% of the company’s workforce, aimed to reduce organizational complexity and speed up decision-making as the company faces a more competitive market for obesity drugs.
