Indiana Senate OKs jobless fund tax hikes, benefit cuts

Niki Kelly, The Journal Gazette

nkelly@jg.net

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Senate on Tuesday approved a plan to increase taxes on businesses and cut payments to out-of-work Hoosiers in an effort to repair the state's deficit-ridden unemployment insurance system.

Senate approval leaves just weeks to find a compromise on an emotional issue fraught with philosophic and partisan divides.