Friday, 3 November 2017

Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining

Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining

He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course.”I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner. Despite broad consensus about coal’s bleak future, a years-long effort to diversify the economy of this hard-hit region away from mining is stumbling, with Obama-era jobs retraining classes undersubscribed and future programs at risk under President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget.

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