Another tuition hike is proposed for Purdue University Fort Wayne, and anyone wanting to provide feedback may soon get their say.
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Unemployment in the Fort Wayne metro area dropped to 4.0% in April, data the Indiana Department of Workforce Development released Monday shows.
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INDIANAPOLIS â For the first time in a year, unemployment statistics show the stark difference between the first month that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hit and now that the United States is emerging from the impact of the coronavirus.
Unemployment has returned to prepandemic, full-employment levels â just look at LaGrange County at 2.3% unemployment in April â and reminds people of northeast Indiana just how bad the situation was a year ago.
Rachel Blakeman of the Community Research Institute at Purdue University Fort Wayne offered insight and caution about the numbers. CRI believes the usual year-over-year comparison will be more appropriate in late summer or into fall, recalling how rapidly the labor market recovered. Right now, they create a bit of a false narrative in light of the circumstances that caused those numbers to spike last year. In other words, the spike a year ago was not a traditional market force but rather a public health measure that nec
Mayor Tom Henry speaks Wednesday at Purdue Fort Wayne on the green infrastructure work. Previous Next
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Mayor praises city s public works successes
Joins officials to tout multi-phase Hobson project
DEVAN FILCHAK | The Journal Gazette
Mayor Tom Henry said he wants the community to know that public works is more than sidewalks and curbs.
“It s also bike lanes, and it s also a tremendous infrastructure underneath the streets of this community. We have all kinds of water pipes and a number of other assets to our community that most people never see, but they are a part of our entire industry,” he said Wednesday after a news conference.
Working for Hoosiers
Liz Brown
Most words associated with Washington, D.C., these days aren t positive: pessimism, gridlock, vitriol.
Voters are tired of Washington s inability to find solutions for the American people. The party in power seems to respond to every crisis, real or manufactured, with a new spending proposal. When Democrats do pass spending bills, it s often without any Republican support. President Joe Biden has only been in office since January, and already he has proposed $6 trillion in new spending.
This 2021 Indiana General Assembly session, January through April, had a tall order: to apply lessons learned from COVID-19 and pass a balanced two-year budget. We did all that and more.