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Stephanie Wiechmann
1 in 3 of Indiana's roughly 3 million workers do their work remotely part of the time, 1 in 6 do so full time. To compare, that's more than have ever worked in manufacturing and transportation combined. Ball State economist Michael Hicks says Indiana has about the same slice of the remote worker pie as other states. There's an opportunity to attract more people to the Hoosier State.

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Michael Hicks
So if you have a community, as Indiana does, that a lot of people want to live in, this is a great opportunity. If you have a place that people don't want to live, this is a great threat.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Some Indiana locales, like Muncie and West Lafayette, are offering financial incentives to attract remote workers to move into their cities. A similar statewide program was proposed in the 2022 legislative session, then removed from the proposed bill. In Muncie. Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.