WORK TO BE DONE | Sunday centerpiece | The Journal Gazette
WORK TO BE DONE Rick Farrant The unemployment rate in northeast Indiana has been running below 5%, the labor force grew for the first time in 10 months in March, and employers throughout the region are hiring. By a number of metrics, the region's workforce landscape seems to be healthy and the economy rebounding from a virus-fueled slowdown. But there is one glaring exception. Throughout virtually every industry in northeast Indiana, employers are asking the same question: Where are the workers? There is an air of frustration bordering on desperation, and there seems to be no speedy remedy ot...