Small businesses (finally) get to hiring
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
For a while now, we’ve talked to small business owners who say they want to hire more employees, but aren’t in a financial position to do it, can’t find qualified applicants, or are too concerned about the economy to make the jump. But two new reports show small business hiring picked up this spring. In this episode, whether that’s a blip or the start of a positive trend. Plus: An AI prescription renewal tool is launched in Utah, Macy’s tries to turn things around, and we visit a river in the Pacific Northwest with two aging bridges at risk of collapse.
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| 1:08.6 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizzdahl. |
| 1:11.4 | It is Wednesday today, the 3rd of June. |
| 1:14.8 | Good as it always is. |
| 1:16.4 | Tad me along, everybody. |
| 1:17.9 | We're going to get the May jobs report on Friday morning. |
| 1:21.2 | But ahead of that, we have gotten a private sector sneak peek of sorts. |
| 1:25.2 | ADP said this morning that private companies added 122,000 jobs last |
| 1:30.7 | month, more than people had been guessing. And two other firms, Gusto and Paychecks by name, |
| 1:36.6 | both of which do payroll for small businesses, reported the best outlooks they've seen so far this |
| 1:41.7 | year. Gusto said almost every sector and every region |
| 1:45.0 | added jobs, paychecks said small business employees saw their wages and hours increase last |
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