Navigation

Tag, you're it! PSN's website uses tags to categorize content. You are viewing a list of content tagged as Indiana.
For a more organized view, please visit the Indiana state page.

Indiana

Voter ID Law Struck Down by Indiana Appellate Court

Christian Smith-Socaris on October 1, 2009 - 12:14pm
Last week the Indiana Court of Appeals struck down the photo identification requirement for voting that was upheld by the US Supreme Court in its Crawford decision last year.  In doing so, the court ruled on the basis of equal protection as guaranteed by Indiana's state constitution, which is more extensive than federal law.  The Indiana court follows Missouri, whose photo ID requirement was found unconstitutional under that state's constitution in 2006.

Protecting the Unemployed from Abusive Credit Inquiries

Caroline Fan on August 13, 2009 - 11:40am
As the economic downturn progresses, American workers are facing a disturbing rise in employers using credit ratings to determine job worthiness.  According to a 2006 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, the number of firms using credit histories to screen applicants rose from 25% in 1998 to 43% despite such inquiries often being discriminatory and even illegal. 

2009 Indiana Session Roundup

Caroline Fan on July 23, 2009 - 2:59pm
The Indiana legislature had to go to a special session and still barely averted a state government shutdown, to turn in a budget that made no one happy. Leading editorials called the session a "failure." The state went from the 2008 session in the best financial shape it has been in several years with a fiscal surplus exceeding $1 billion, to an acrimonious session that was dominated by budget disagreements due to a desire to preserve the state's $1 billion financial cushion, even after using $300 million in reserves. Nonetheless, the session produced some progressive legislation including online voter registration and a fix to the state's broken unemployment insurance system.