Indiana to receive $10.4 million to help retrain workers in sagging RV market

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/9418

Indiana will receive a $10.4 million grant to help offset some of the pain being felt in that state due to layoffs in the RV industry. Indiana is the RV capital of the country with nearly 60 percent of the touring vehicles produced each year coming from the Hoosier State. Nearly 60,000 jobs in Indiana are the result of the RV industry and over the past year manufacturers has announced more than 2,500 layoffs. With the economy on the decline and fuel prices on the rise sales of RVs have plummeted. Elkhart County, home to the majority of the state’s RV production, had an unemployment rate of 9.3 percent in July, that’s up from 7 percent in June. Overall, the state had an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent in July.