Since 2001, trade with China has cost the U.S. 2.4 million jobs, according to a new report.

The congressional district of U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-1st, has lost nearly 5,000 jobs through this country’s trade deficit with China; the district of U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-2nd, even more.

Those are the findings of a report released on Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), according to the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a nonpartisan, nonprofit partnership of several leading U.S. manufacturers and the United Steelworkers.

Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, 2.4 million jobs have been lost or displaced in the United States as a result of the burgeoning trade deficit with that nation, the report concludes, and Indiana was among the states hit hardest, suffering 54,900 job losses over the seven-year period covered by the EPI study and ranking 15th in the nation.

Visclosky’s 1st district accounted for 4,900 of those job losses; Donnelly’s 2nd, 6,000; the hardest hit districts, the 3rd, the 5th, and the 9th.

The full report, which pegs Indiana’s total job losses at 54,800, can be found here.

Weekly initial unemployment claims for the week ended March 20 were down.

Fort Wayne is laying down more than seven miles of new water and sewer lines south of the city to prep land for economic development.

Richmond has a new brewery.

nGenX has opened a data center in Lafayette but has no immediate hiring plans.

A rebranding campaign by Conseco may lead to a name change for the home of the Indiana Pacers.

Single-family home sales in Northwest Indiana saw gains in February.

No, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has no plans to run for President. No, not at all, which is why he always refuses to address national issues.