Industry Week

Each year Ball State University’s Center for Business and Economic Research analyzes how each state ranks among its peers in several areas of the economy that underlie the success of manufacturing. Recently it released its Manufacturing Scorecard 2020.

But the report’s findings on the jobs do not take into account the ending of the GM workers’ strike, which brought 49,000 strikers back on the payroll in November, noted Michael Hicks, economist at Ball State University and director of Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research.