Marketplace examines the growing appeal of skilled trades as an AI-proof, dependable career path, visiting Hope Renovations in North Carolina, a program that trains women and non-binary people for construction and renovation jobs. The episode also covers a dip in the national labor force participation rate, a look at the economic role of country stores in New England, and a profile of a tailoring shop in Utah.
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The trades as AI-proof careers
Skilled trades — plumbing, electrical work, construction — are being framed as more immune to automation than many desk jobs, drawing renewed interest.