Employers highlight childcare solutions, pan tax credit risks

Indiana officials are increasingly looking to employers for help tackling the state's childcare shortage, but a tax credit remains unused.

By: Leslie Bonilla Muñiz

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: September 10, 2026

Words: 1,308

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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As Indiana officials increasingly look to employers for help tackling the state’s childcare shortage, some gathered Wednesday to tout their internal solutions — and warn of a key risk in a years-old but unused tax credit.

The Indianapolis Airport Authority, which employs about 500 people operating several public airports and a heliport in central Indiana, seized on childcare as one fix for a demographic problem.

In 2019, half the municipal corporation’s workforce was set to …

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