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Immediately, one can see the tremendous growth of construction in Indiana, whose employment was 14% greater in November 2023 than in January 2019 and 26% greater than in April 2020. Despite manufacturing’s prominence in the state, its employment is just below its January 2019 number.

From the article: Digging into Indiana's jobs reports over the last five years

Forty-three of our 92 counties show a decrease in the number of parents in the family in the labor force during the pandemic.

From the article: COVID influences the labor force

Current estimates by the St. Louis Fed indicate household formations have outpaced housing inventory growth over the last decade to create a shortage of nearly 3.7 million housing units across the U.S.

From the article: Uncertainty in the national real estate market