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Editorial Indiana still stubbornly turning its back on advantages of work share arrangements Indiana unemployment rolls swelled last spring, as a worsening coronavirus epidemic upended Hoosier businesses and led employers to lay off workers. Claims for jobless benefits rose from an average of 3,000 per week to around 146,000 in late March. Worse, Indiana Department of Workforce Development officials told the Indianapolis Star in late June that private-sector employment was down more than 405,000, compared to the year before. A Brookings Institution report issued this month said a state work share program could have saved between 13,000 and 34,000 Hoosier jobs, but state lawmakers aren t interested. The state missed out on at least $116 million – and as much as $200 million – in federal funding to put the program in place, the report says.

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