Tim Henderson, Stateline

Pedestrian deaths fell 11% in early 2025 over the previous year, the largest drop since the Governors Highway Safety Association began reporting them 15 years ago, but remain higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019.

Since June 2023, annual deaths from opioid overdose fell by nearly half nationally as of October. In Indiana, they have fallen by about 53 percent.

Indiana's average kindergarten vaccination rate for 2024-25 was 90.2% — dropping from 93.6% in 2018-2019. Nonmedical exemptions have jumped from 1% to 2.6%.

There have been 2,804 immigration arrests in Indiana under President Donald Trump's administration. That is double the 2024 total under former President Joe Biden at 1,395.

Suicide has increased for Gen Z adults ages 18-27 since 2014, when the millennials were in early adulthood, with most of the increase among Black and Hispanic men.

Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country.

Indiana’s Haitian immigrant population grew to 12,465 between 2019 and 2023