10-county growth plan coming for northeast Indiana

Marty Schladen, The Journal Gazette

mschladen@jg.net

Northeast Indiana, we have a problem.

Making that problem widely known and coming up with strategies to address it are the goals of a group of business, education and government leaders from a 10-county region that began meeting Wednesday.

In 1994, the average worker in northeast Indiana made 95 percent of what the average worker in the United States made.