Stunning TV Exposé: Indiana’s Fishy (Privatized) Jobs Numbers

February 17, 2014

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For reasons that will hopefully become clear as more evidence comes out, Indiana’s privatized Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) continues to play games with its jobs numbers.


And in Indianapolis, WTHR-TV’s tenacious 13 Investigates unit continues to pummel the IEDC with outstanding coverage, looking into failed deals, shuttered workplaces, and the IEDC’s misleading transparency website.


Take a few minutes and watch these two remarkable TV segments by reporter Bob Segall.


Has

your

local TV station ever done job-subsidy reporting so robust?



The Indiana Job Numbers Still Don’t Add Up

(1/31/14)



Indiana lawmakers to state job agency: “Tell the truth”

(2/13/14)