EARN in Indiana

Indiana Network publications

• Strengthening Essential Infrastructure: Supporting the Childcare System in Southeast Indianapolis

  • December 1, 2023
  • Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
  Care Economy EARN in the Midwest Infrastructure

• Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest

  • October 10, 2019
  • Common Good Iowa
  • Colin Gordon

  A half-century removed from the high-tide of the civil rights movement, progress on racial equity has slowed or stalled on many fronts. Nowhere is this more starkly evident than in the […]

  Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Wages, Wealth, and Poverty:Wages, Wealth, & Poverty: Where Hoosier Women Stand Where Hoosier Women Stand & Ways Our State Can Close the Gaps

  • December 12, 2017
  • Erin Macey, Policy Analyst

  In Indiana, women earn less, own less, and experience poverty more often than men. These gaps raise important questions about identity, opportunity, and well-being, and they suggest that our systems […]

  Income Inequality Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Clearing the Jobs Pathway: Removing Non-Academic Barriers to Adult Student Completion

  • June 1, 2017
  • Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
  • Staff Report

  In order to reach the state’s workforce and economic goals, Indiana needs leadership to better align resources for adult students and to remove barriers that stand between them and post-secondary […]

  Education Job Training & Apprenticeships

• Paid Family & Medical Leave: Policy Analysis and Recommendations for Indiana

  • December 1, 2016
  • Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
  • Staff Report

  Policies that provide paid time off to care for family members or recover from a serious medical event offer a host of benefits to workers; their newborn, newly adopted, or […]

  Healthcare Paid Sick, Family, and Medical Leave

• High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development

  • December 17, 2015
  • Keystone Research Center
  • Stephen Herzenberg

  In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs

• The Status of Working Families in Indiana: 2015 Report

  • January 1, 2015
  • Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
  • Derek Thomas

  The Status of Working Families is a biennial report that analyzes the general state of Indiana’s economy as it relates to working families by examining data on poverty, labor force […]

  Budges and Taxes State of Working X

• Reverse Credit Transfer: A Completion Strategy that Indiana’s Earned

  • October 1, 2013
  • Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
  • Andrew Bradley

  At a time when Indiana is falling short of its higher education completion goals and the proportion of Hoosiers with some college but no degree exacerbates the skills gap, an […]

  Education

• Credentials of Opportunity: Better jobs, better employment and better outcomes for Indiana

  • December 3, 2012
  • Indiana Community Action Poverty Institute
  • Staff Report

  Our original research for this report includes analysis of data about credential programs collected from each public institution in the state. Our findings include illuminating revelations about the powerful economic […]

  Job Training & Apprenticeships Jobs