The Workforce Ready Grant and the Employer Training Grant targets Hoosiers who are unemployed or underemployed.

It's the next phase of the state's Skill UP program, which aims to help localize training efforts for an estimated million job openings in the next decade.

For years, Indiana officials have gone back and forth on whether the point of high school is to get students ready for college, or to get them ready to enter the workforce. Today, Indiana's career and technical education programs are growing rapidly.

Indiana lags in training enough workers to fill thousands of open manufacturing jobs - and some say reforms passed this year won't help fix that fast enough.

A new study asks what would happen if coal workers were retrained to produce a different type of energy

In the past couple of years, West Central Indiana has created more than 2,000 manufacturing jobs. But it's only filled about 500, according to the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.