INDIANAPOLIS -- Looking ahead to Indiana after her win in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated yesterday that Hoosier voters can expect to hear much more about her plans to revitalize the economy and keep and attract good jobs.

"This campaign, to me, here in Indiana is about jobs, jobs, jobs," Mrs. Clinton said at a Downtown event, billed as "Solutions for the American Economy," that drew about 1,000 people. "This is the central issue for me."

Polls suggest a close race between her and Sen. Barack Obama in the state's May 6 primary.

Though she touched on other issues in her 50-minute speech, including enhanced funding for medical research and ending the war in Iraq, she returned frequently to economic issues affecting middle-class Americans, including the high cost of health care and higher education and the loss of jobs to other countries.

"I will fight for you -- for your jobs, your health care, ending the foreclosure crisis," she told an enthusiastic crowd gathered for the outdoor event at the American Legion Mall.

In a statement on her Pennsylvania primary victory, Joe Hogsett, co-chair of her Indiana campaign, also emphasized economic issues, saying the win showed that Keystone State voters felt Mrs. Clinton is the best presidential candidate "to tackle the economic challenges facing Americans."

"Now it's Indiana's turn," he said, "and it comes at a crucial time, with our state facing job loss, high home foreclosure rates, rising costs for everything from gas to health care and falling wages."

He said that in the remaining days before the state's primary, Mrs. Clinton will "continue to crisscross Indiana to talk with Hoosiers about her plans to jump-start the economy, create high-wage jobs and strengthen the middle class."

Polls suggest that in Indiana, as in Pennsylvania, the economy is a top concern. Forty-two percent of likely Hoosier voters named the economy as the most important issue facing the next president, according to results released last week from a poll for the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. The Iraq war was second, with 14 percent, and health care was third, with 12 percent.

In her remarks yesterday, Mrs. Clinton outlined many of the economic strategies released earlier by her campaign. Among other steps, she has called for strengthening the North American Free Trade Agreement's labor and environmental provisions; ending financial incentives for large drug and oil companies to send jobs overseas; improving programs to help displaced workers; establishing a fund to invest in clean, renewable energy; creating new regulatory protections to guard against another mortgage crisis; providing incentives for businesses to create jobs in the United States; freezing rates on subprime adjustable rate mortgages; and taking other measures to help struggling families keep their homes.

Mrs. Clinton said she would like to debate Mr. Obama in Indiana and noted she is "looking forward to a vigorous campaign" and traveling around the state.

Already, she and her family members, former President Bill Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, have made 50 stops around Indiana, she said. More visits are planned today and later this week.

Karolyn Stratford, 60, a local resident who came to hear Mrs. Clinton's remarks, said economic issues were a concern. She retired last fall and has had trouble finding full-time employment. A Vietnam-era veteran, she has coverage through the veterans health care system but would like to find a job that offers private coverage.

Like Ms. Stratford, Cheri Storms, 45, supports Mrs. Clinton and feels she has more experience than Mr. Obama. She is most concerned about global warming, "bringing the jobs home" and having the nation achieve greater economic self-sufficiency.

In a conference call with reporters earlier yesterday, former Gov. Joe Kernan, a Clinton supporter, said an "economic solutions team" made up of officials who have worked with Mrs. Clinton will visit communities to discuss the impact her economic proposals could have.

Robby Mook, the campaign's state director, also objected to a mailing distributed by the Obama campaign that claims Mrs. Clinton "won't deliver change or protect jobs. She's part of the same old Washington system that's rigged against average people."

Mr. Mook said the mailing distorts her record.

Kevin Griffis, an Obama campaign spokesman, defended the mailing and noted that the Clinton campaign has distributed its own mailing that criticizes Mr. Obama about similar issues.