Indiana House OKs fix for bankrupt jobless fund

INDIANAPOLIS – Republicans and Democrats used vastly different descriptions Monday to depict an unemployment insurance bill that passed 61-38 and limits both tax increases for businesses and benefit reductions for future unemployed workers

Rep. Dan Leonard, R-Huntington, called it a balanced approach to solving a $2 billion problem and said it involves an “insignificant change” in benefits. Others called it a jobs killer, and Rep. John Bartlett, D-Indianapolis, suggested it would drive some Hoosiers to suicide.