Forget the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt. The ‘Wired Belt’ may be the next frontier of American political power

The laid-off factory worker from Youngstown, Ohio, became the defining figure of American politics for the past two decades. The jobless financial professional from Philadelphia’s suburbs could be the defining figure of the future, and their demands may be harder to ignore.

That’s the warning from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. The American AI Jobs Risk Index—an analysis mapping the economic and geographic impact of AI job risk across 784 occupations—shows exactly where the white-collar workers most threatened by AI displacement live. 

Bhaskar Chakravorti, the dean of global business at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and

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