America's budget: Your turn

MERRILLVILLE | Nick Rozdelsky, 51, brought his teenage nephew with him Monday because balancing the federal budget will affect the future of generations to come.

The Great Reset - Disappearing Jobs

Job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. In the United States, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were paid middle-class wages, ranging from $37,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.4 million jobs gained since the recession are mid-pay. (…

TurboTax

A Costco shopper purchases TurboTax at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. According to a three-month AP investigation released in January 2013, five years after the start of the Great Recession, instead of relying on someone else in the workplace or their personal lives, people are using techno…

Car pooling would keep more dollars in Northwest Indiana

We need a huge regional economic stimulus. We need to encourage car pooling.

Whiting rolls out red carpet for first conference

Connie Zeigler, historian and consultant for C Resources in Indianapolis, places a lunch order Thursday in Grillers restaurant in Whiting. Zeigler was attending Preserving Historic Places: Indiana's Statewide Preservation Conference in Whiting last week. At left is Richard Cloues, of Atlanta…

Whiting rolls out red carpet for first conference

Nancy Branski's dog Muffin stands in the front door of her resale shop, Treasures R Us, on Thursday along 119th Street. Whiting was host of Preserving Historic Places: Indiana's Statewide Preservation Conference.

Car keys and money

Car keys and money on a white background

Group pledges to use data to spur development

The Regional Council of Economic Advisors sits beneath a screen displaying per-capita income growth for Northwest Indiana compared to the state and country during the "Northwest Indiana: Regional Economic Trends and Opportunities" forum and luncheon Wednesday at Valparaiso University.

Group pledges to use data to spur development

Paul McGrath, professor of economics at Purdue University Calumet, speaks to a crowd during the "Northwest Indiana: Regional Economic Trends and Opportunities" forum and luncheon Wednesday at Valparaiso University.

Economic council's prognosis ranges from promising to 'scary'

Tony Sindone, continuing lecturer in economics at Purdue University North Central, speaks to a crowd during the Northwest Indiana: Regional Economic Trends and Opportunities forum and luncheon Wednesday at Valparaiso University.

Economic council's prognosis ranges from promising to 'scary'

Purdue University Calumet student finance major Mark Arciaga asks a question during the Northwest Indiana: Regional Economic Trends and Opportunities forum and luncheon Wednesday at Valparaiso University.

Economic council's prognosis ranges from promising to 'scary'

Paul McGrath, professor of economics at Purdue University Calumet, speaks to the crowd at the Northwest Indiana: Regional Economic Trends and Opportunities forum and luncheon Wednesday at Valparaiso University.

Economic council's prognosis ranges from promising to 'scary'

Don Babcock, chairman of the Northwest Indiana Forum, moderates the Northwest Indiana: Regional Economic Trends and Opportunities forum Wednesday at Valparaiso University's Harre Union.

Major economic development announcement in Merrillville

An economic development announcement Tuesday is expected to reveal about 240 new jobs will be coming to this building at 8757 Colorado St. in Merrillville.