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Indiana is the fifth largest corn-producing state in the U.S., with over a billion bushels harvested in 2013. In 2017, Indiana had a civilian labor force of nearly 3.4 million, the 15th largest in the United States. Indiana has an unemployment rate of 3.4%, lower than the national average.
During the Great Depression, unemployment exceeded 25% statewide. Southern Indiana was hard hit, and unemployment in the coal mining districts reached 50% during the worst years, 1931–1933. The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) began operations in Indiana in July 1935. By October of that year, the agency had put 74,708 Hoosiers to work.
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Most new employers in the state of Indiana start with a 2.5% unemployment tax rate unless your company is a construction company, successor company, or a government entity, at which point your tax rate is 2.53%, .5% to 9.4%, 1.6% respectively. [9] Indiana employers are required to pay unemployment taxes for any year in which they have employees.
Elkhart (/ ˈ ɛ l k ɑːr t / EL-kart) is a city in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States.The city is located 15 miles (24 km) east of South Bend, Indiana.Elkhart has the larger population of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area, in a region commonly known as Michiana.
The economy of the state of Indiana is reflected in its gross state product in 2017 of US$359 billion and per capita income of $44,165. [9] A high percentage of Indiana's income is from manufacturing. [10] Indiana has been the largest steel producing state in the U.S. since 1975, with the Calumet Region of northwest Indiana being the largest ...
However, a more recent (2014) appraisal of Anderson from the Indiana Business Review was mixed, noting that "long-term trends are negative", citing "a long-term downward trend in area employment" and "acceleration in the number of food stamp recipients". More recent unemployment has been reduced, but improvements still lag behind the rest of ...