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By BRIAN A. HOWEY
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - During the Major Moves debate in 2006, Gov. Mitch Daniels described it as the "jobs bill of a generation." Upon passage, then House Speaker Brian Bosma predicted it would put 130,000 Hoosiers to work.
This past year, with a recession looming, Daniels talked of how Major Moves might have made Indiana "recession proof."
Fast forward to Friday, always a great day to drop bad news. And last Friday there was bad, bad news. Indiana’s jobless rate .jpg)
jumped from 5,9 percent to 6.3 percent in July. This reflects the hemorrhaging of jobs in the auto/RV sector and the bleeding there is just beginning. The 1,400 Monaco jobs at three Elkhart County plants haven’t even hit the rolls yet. Those plants close in September. Kokomo is bracing for the loss of 600 white collar jobs at Delphi Corp. The Kokomo Tribune reported Monday: Town hall meetings between Delphi Corp. executive Jeff Owens and salaried employees today will reveal the fate of hundreds of white collar jobs throughout the company’s electronics and safety division. Long a mainstay of the Kokomo economy, the salaried engineering positions at the division’s Kokomo headquarters are expected to be significantly reduced.
As has happened in previous campaigns, the dynamic is sharply in place here. There are dual takes on the jobs scenario. Each week, the Daniels administration trots out new, pending jobs, as he did last week at the new Nestle plan in Anderson. And with each plant closing in places like Nappanee and Peru, the Thompson campaign points out the need for a "new direction."
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