Indiana wages lag behind national average, smaller states [Video]

This is the latest installment of an investigative reporting project conducted by FOX59, CBS4, and State Affairs Indiana. This collaborative effort focuses on the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and deals it makes in the name of growing the state’s economy. The agency, led by Governor Eric Holcomb, who appoints all members of its ruling board of directors, has come under greater scrutiny since establishing the LEAP District project in Boone County.

It’s not even close.

The biggest thing in Greensburg is the Honda plant.

For 16 years, Civic and CRVs have rolled out of the assembly factory. Landing the facility for Decatur County was one of the early, cherished victories of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).

At the groundbreaking in March 2007, then-Governor Mitch Daniels predicted the plant’s economic impact, “will be felt not just in the near vicinity in Greensburg but for many places around.”

Fast forward to today, folks in this community of 12,300 tend to agree the plant has …