The Gary area’s unemployment rate was 6.3 percent in March, up from 5.5 percent in February.
Making the world take notice
Farming methods raising Indiana’s profile in global marketplace Agriculture is big business in the Hoosier state. When it comes to production of corn, soybeans, peppermint, spearmint, watermelon, tomatoes, cantaloupe and pumpkins, Indiana ranked in the top 10 nationally in 2017 for those crops. On the livestock side, Indiana is in the top 10 in hogs, […]
State’s August revenues fall short of projections
The Indiana State Budget Agency reported Sept. 7 that the state’s general fund revenues totaled $1.06 billion for August, down $19.6 million or 1.8 percent below estimates from a revised revenue forecast in December, but $39 million or 3.8 percent more than revenues collected in August 2017. Sales tax collections totaled $661.2 million for August, […]