The recipients included Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications ($4.8 million), the Terre Haute-based coal mining company Hallador Energy ($10 million) and the Evansville-based sporting goods maker Escalade Inc. ($5.6 million).
COVID-19 has become a significant problem for the industry. An estimated 25% of U.S. pork processing capacity has closed in recent days.
And while testing in Indiana has been on the rise, the state still isn’t hitting its goal of testing 6,300 Hoosiers a day for the novel coronavirus.
Under the approach detailed by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, hospitals and doctors would submit their bills directly to the government and they would get paid at Medicare rates.
The biggest and most profitable U.S. airline lost $534 million in the first quarter and warned that it expects the second quarter to be much, much worse.
Even as depressing economic and health reports pile up by the day, some investors are looking ahead to the possibility of parts of the economy reopening as infections level off in some areas.
The Indiana State Department of Health said Wednesday that the cumulative death toll in the state rose to 661, up from 630 the previous day.
Without a comprehensive statewide effort to get all students online during the coronavirus crisis, districts have largely been tasked with filling the gaps when it comes to computers and home internet access.
President Donald Trump is urging swift passage this week. The Senate approved the bill Tuesday and the House plans a vote on Thursday.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said Tuesday that a second wave of the novel coronavirus will be far more deadly because it is likely to coincide with the start of flu season.
While Major League Baseball tries to figure out a way to play this summer, the prospects for anything resembling a normal minor league season are increasingly bleak.
A massive coronavirus outbreak that has sickened nearly 4,000 inmates in Ohio has highlighted the dangers lurking in the nation’s correctional facilities during the pandemic.
Trump said he would be placing a 60-day pause on the issuance of green cards in an effort to limit competition for jobs in a U.S. economy wrecked by the coronavirus.
U.S. stocks sank to their worst loss in weeks as worries swept markets worldwide about the economic carnage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
During Tuesday’s media briefing, Gov. Eric Holcomb said he wasn’t ready to suggest a date for when businesses like retailers, restaurants or office workers could return but everyone should “be prepared” for that day.
The $484 billion legislation would increase funding for the Paycheck Protection Program by $310 billion, boost a separate small business emergency grant and loan program, and direct billions to hospitals and a new coronavirus testing program.
The federal rescue measure was designed for companies with fewer than 500 workers, but Small Business Administration guidelines allow some bituminous coal mining firms with up to 1,500 employees to qualify for the loans.
Officials on both sides said the goal was still to pass the agreement at a 4 p.m. Senate session on Tuesday, although it was not certain whether that could be achieved.
The department said Monday that death numbers would begin increasing because it would begin reporting presumptive positive deaths in its totals.
About 91% of Indiana restaurant operators said they have had to either furlough or lay off workers since the COVID-19 outbreak began, with at least 15% anticipating they’ll have to take additional action in the next 30 days.
