The Hoosier State seeks to spend virus relief aid on a new jobs program.

Like most states, Indiana directed some of their share of the $350 billion in federal coronavirus relief to infrastructure, schools, and unemployment insurance.

In the final days of the legislative session, lawmakers quickly approved a plan that will benefit a new jobs program in the state. Indiana budget planners wrote in $75 million for the Career Accelerator Program, which is more than three times the amount appropriated for Governor Holcomb’s Next Level Jobs program two years ago.