July 09, 2026

Positive Jobs Data, Blue-Collar Millennials, AI Deployment Gets Assist

11 minutes

Multiple sources show job growth trending upward, including the Paychex Small Business Employment Watch that showed a fourth consecutive month of improvement. This bodes well for businesses that had been feeling pressured by the labor market, says host Gene Marks. He also discusses the trend of Millennials snapping up skilled-trades businesses, and for many good reasons, including recurring cash flow and currently resistant to AI disruption. In AI news, Microsoft put $2.5 billion into a firm that helps with AI deployment and training on many AI models, some not even their own. Listen to the podcast.

Topics:

00:00 – Introduction

00:20 – Paychex Small Business Employment Watch

03:37 – Blue-Collar Business Acquisitions

06:57 – Microsoft Invests in Helping AI Deployment

09:48 – Episode Wrap-up

Additional Resources

Paychex Small Business Employment Watch: https://bit.ly/paychex-sbew

Meet Paychex: https://bit.ly/3VtM6bs

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