We must facilitate capital in the marketplace to ensure that the small business starting in a garage or the bustling, expanding company has access to the resources to help make those American dreams a reality.
Indiana business owners who believe it either is necessary or wise to employ workers from other countries are facing increasingly higher and more difficult barriers.
It astonishes us that politicians continue their assault on birth control and the medically underserved.
Attitudes about social welfare can be divided into two utterly incompatible categories: The use of citizens’ tax monies to provide a safety net is viewed either as charity or as self-interest, properly understood.
Indiana University has announced a $55 million initiative—Prepared for Environmental Change—in collaboration with a bipartisan coalition of government, industry and community leaders. It is part of IU’s Grand Challenges commitment to address some of the most critical issues facing our state.
Hoosier millennials take one glance at the latest from the Statehouse and think: Why bother? The Indiana General Assembly’s work product is a result of policy priorities that wouldn’t be out of place on the set of “Happy Days.”
We need to stand up for the belief of justice for all, not just for those who can afford it.
For Indiana to remain viable in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, it is critical that we fill our talent pipeline with highly skilled, smart, flexible and experienced workers who will thrive in an ever-evolving economy.
The Legislature just finished a very successful session with a good, balanced budget and passed a needed road funding bill designed to secure Indiana’s road infrastructure needs for local and state government. In spite of this significant achievement, one more element regarding road infrastructure is needed to make Indiana a successful state with appropriate road […]
The state can improve upon its 41 percent rate of residents age 25 to 64 with education beyond high school by encouraging much greater use of reverse transfer.
The rise of populism, increasing racial resentments and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the widening divide between flourishing cities populated with skilled workers and emptying rural areas pock-marked with abandoned factories and stores should be a wake-up call.
We need men to be real partners at work, not just at home. We need men to “lean in” alongside women not only to ensure that both women and men have opportunities to lead but also to enable their organizations to thrive, innovate and compete.
Addressing everything from more direct flights to increased funding for emerging technologies, legislators gave businesses plenty to be happy about in 2017.
The bottom line: Building a 2,000-mile wall on our southern border makes little sense and could have big repercussions—most of them negative. Some campaign promises are best left unfulfilled. This is one of them.
Our bid allows our community a one-time chance for Indianapolis to bolster its sports reputation for decades to come by bringing the “world’s game” here at the highest level possible on a permanent basis.
Lilly would be investing even more here if the U.S. House Republican blueprint for tax reform were already in place. So would the nearly 8,600 Indiana companies that sell products in foreign markets.
Across the nation, a new age of “winner-take-all” urbanism has emerged; a small group of elite cities reap the spoils of migrating talent. Cities become increasingly divided into pockets of prosperity and poverty.
Ricker’s end-around of long-established state law is not a one-time occurrence; it is instead just the latest in a years-long battle to fix the game in a way that would favor his business.
Buy $40 worth of gas and the bank will grab as much as $1.60 right off the top for a transaction that costs it just a few cents.
Indiana is among 15 states that implement the best practices outlined by the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for methodology and processes. Kentucky is the only nearby state that can make a similar claim. But it’s Indiana’s process for forecasting tax revenue that stands out.
