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South Bend built a digital services division over a decade by banking early wins for political capital

The Indiana city's digital services director explains how small early projects created the credibility and budget support needed to sustain longer-term modernization work.

Read it at Route Fifty ↗Economic Development · Sep 11, 2026 · Photo: Route Fifty

Reading list·Route Fifty

California built a public tracker for AI job loss and so far it finds almost none

The state's unemployment agency and a university lab match jobless claims against AI task-exposure scores, and the reporting says the only moving line is claims from college-educated workers in high-exposure jobs.

Read it at Route Fifty ↗Economic Development · Jul 8, 2026 · Photo: Nitat Termmee via Getty Images