Pete the Planner: How to teach teens the value of investing
I’ve come to learn that three areas need to be addressed when teaching teens how to handle money. They all feel intertwined, but they aren’t.
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In the workplace: Before allowing flexible work, clearly define it
A hot topic right now is the notion of employers offering employees a flexible work environment. However, it leaves a lot of us wondering: Just what does a “flexible work environment” mean, and how does it help us to be our best?
Mike Lopresti: Athletes’ livelihoods, life-long dreams hang on Olympics
You think Indianapolis had its hands full hosting the NCAA Tournament without the walls crumbling in from COVID? Multiply that by a hundred and you get Tokyo.
Editorial: Spending on state parks, trails is welcome at time when talent attraction is crucial
We know that, as more companies move to remote working opportunities—and examples of that are all around us—employees will be able to more easily choose where they live. For Indiana and central Indiana to compete, we must step up our game.
Lesley Weidenbener: Downtown has been my safe space
I was startled when some extended family members recently expressed shock that I continue to come downtown every day—and that I worked in the IBJ office on Monument Circle regularly through the pandemic. They assumed it was too unsafe.
Sheila Kennedy: Uninformed frenzy over critical race theory is all politics
Assertions that critical race theory is being taught in America’s elementary and high schools are ludicrous. As I have been complaining pretty much forever, schools aren’t even teaching the most basic concepts required for civic literacy.
Brose McVey & Carol D’Amico: The power of a job on teen mental health
Beginning with the graduating class of 2023, high school students may help themselves graduate through work-based learning, including internships—an overdue change that should generate dividends, intended and otherwise.
Letter: Pacers need to be quicker
For this team to improve, the perimeter defense must be way better. Our guys seem to lack quickness.
John Patten: Rest areas need funding, too
Our surrounding states seem to understand these important way stations that dot our highways are, in and of themselves, indicators of state pride.
Readers: Send us your letters
Now you can go to ibj.com/letters, where there’s a form you can fill out to submit a letter directly to IBJ editors.
Mickey Kim: Stay cool even while inflation fears run hot
The nearly total shutdown of an economy and subsequent reopening is a truly unique event without precedent or a playbook.
In the workplace: Cultivating the power of many for innovation
So we’ve got a genius idea, to which a number of geniuses have contributed. Is that enough for it to break out? Sadly, no.
Cecil Bohanon & Nick Curott: Remembering economist Steven Horwitz
Horwitz reckoned the greatest misconception about economics is that it deals only with material living standards.
Mike Lopresti: It’s an Indiana summer at the ballpark
Four men, who might be having the summers of their baseball lives. Four roads that led through the state of Indiana.
Letter: Our topsy-turvy pay scale
Someone who is doing a truly essential service, not a discretionary one, should earn more than $12 an hour.
Letter: Elected officials and community leaders should step back, create vision for spending
We urge elected officials, policymakers and civic leaders to consider a strategic and deliberate approach in determining how to best invest and leverage stimulus funds to achieve long-term gains.
Editorial: It’s time to invest in employees’ mental health
Poor mental health drives up health care costs, drives down productivity and can lead to significant absenteeism.
Nate Feltman: Jim Morris has made Indy, world a better place
Gov. Eric Holcomb has awarded The Sachem—the state’s highest honor, which is reserved for Hoosiers whose virtue and lifetime accomplishment have significantly benefited the lives of their fellow Indiana residents—to Morris, a long time business and community leader.
Jillavontia Edwards: It’s time to treat home care workers as truly essential
Building a better economy as we recover from COVID-19 starts with the millions of home care workers who are struggling to get by on low pay.
Fred Yeakey & Dave Neff: Companies can provide students hope beyond zip codes
Opportunity is relative to your level of exposure. Only when urban students are exposed to something outside their ZIP code can they get a vision for a new normal. And the bridge to a better community and life starts with the infrastructure and access to corporate mentorship.