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Thousands of Hoosiers are stuck on a waitlist for home- and community-based services through Medicaid — often with no information about when they might get to the front of the line. The Family and Social Services Administration says it’s added new information to its dashboard that could help people understand where they are on the list.

Help is likely on the way for property tax payers, but that help will also take time. That’s the message from a state task force that spent the last two years reviewing Indiana’s tax system.

Indiana’s infant mortality rate improved in 2023. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Indiana is no longer among the ten worst states.

An Indiana foundation awarded grants to create a new apprenticeship system across the state. The apprenticeships, which are inspired by a system in Switzerland, will first be available to students interested in health care, life sciences and manufacturing.

Legislative leaders say they’ll continue to push for greater access to child care during the upcoming legislative session. Republican lawmakers plan to focus on easing regulations for child care providers across the state.

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston (R-Fishers) said the Statehouse is entering a “new time” ahead of the 2025 legislative session.

Senate Democratic Leader Greg Taylor (D-Indianapolis) was largely silent Tuesday about sexual harassment allegations against him.

In October 2023, Indiana’s unemployment rate stood at 3.6 percent. Over the past year it grew to the current rate of 4.4 percent.

Advocates said they are afraid of how the results of state and national races will affect access to reproductive care. Organizers expect more attacks on reproductive rights in the near future.

Indiana legislative leaders say they likely won’t enact transformative changes to the state’s tax system in the 2025 legislative session.