Working Families 
Indiana Senate Democrats believe in supporting and protecting the working families of this state.
2012 Working Families Proposals:
- Restricting employer's use of an applicant's consumer credit report in hiring (SB 261)
- Prohibiting discrimination against the unemployed through regulating against language in job ads that expressly disallow the unemployed from applying for open positions (SB 205)
Indiana Senate Democrats support:
- Awarding state contracts and incentives to businesses that pay their workers a family wage and offer health insurance
- Awarding tax incentives to businesses that relocate to or expand operations in Indiana and hire laid-off Hoosiers
- Enforcing labor safety and environmental laws
- Enforcing Equal Employment Opportunity laws with Indiana employers
- Ensuring that all workers have lifelong learning opportunities so they can continually update their skills and maintain employment
- Making certain that all workers receive unemployment benefits sufficient to support their family and in a reasonable amount of time, and continue efforts to ensure these benefits replace a meaningful portion of the worker's wages to prevent poverty due to job loss
- Continuing efforts to restore the solvency of Indiana's Unemployment Trust Fund that is both fair to businesses and does not reduce benefits to the unemployed
- Increasing the benefits paid to injured workers and their families through the Workers' Compensation Fund
- Protecting employee pension plans under corporate bankruptcy proceedings