Is coding the new coal? How unemployed miners are ...
Mar 13, 2017 · While unemployed, he came upon an article on Facebook about coal miners training to become tech professionals. One of the organizations mentioned, Mined Minds , happened to teach coding courses in ...
Awaiting Trumps coal comeback, miners reject retraining ...
Nov 01, 2017 · “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 ...
The Kentucky coal town fighting to survive after coal ...
Mar 31, 2018 · Hazard, Kentucky, a town hard-hit from coal-mining closings, is struggling to employ its out-of-work coal miners through a mix of local, state, federal and private programs.
Out-Of-Work Appalachian Coal Miners Retrained As Beekeepers
The declining coal industry has left nearly 100,000 former miners unemployed in West Virginia. But a new nonprofit called the Appalachian Beekeeping Collective hopes to bring a new, more eco-friendly industry to the region: beekeeping.
Coal Mining - May 2018 OES Industry-Specific Occupational ...
163 rows · Apr 02, 2019 · NAICS 212100 - Coal Mining These national industry-specific occupational …
Job training and community college put coal miners on a ...
Sep 12, 2017 · Coal miners in the heart of Appalachia face unemployment and uncertainty as the expansion of automation and natural gas threatens the industry that’s been an economic bedrock.
Clinton to Unemployed Coal Miner: Sorry You Were Upset ...
May 03, 2016 · Hillary Clinton was confronted by an unemployed coal miner at a roundtable event in West Virginia last night for promising to "put a lot of coal miners" out of business.
What’s Up in Coal Country: Alternative-Energy stone - The ...
Sep 30, 2017 · What’s Up in Coal Country: Alternative-Energy Jobs. ... particularly unemployed coal miners like Mr. Davila, to become technicians to maintain and operate the turbines. ... And while coal mining ...
Former coal miners receive training for renewable energy jobs
Unemployed coal miners are finding training for stone in renewable energy, like a wind turbine technician or solar panel installer. Over half of the United States electricity came from coal in 2000.
Coal-mining employment West Virginia 2018 | Statista
Oct 29, 2019 · This statistic shows the coal-mining employment in West Virginia from 2009 to 2018, by mine type. In 2018, 13,962 people were working in West Virginias coal industry in total.
Coal’s demise in Appalachia leaves education in the lurch ...
Feb 05, 2018 · Coal’s demise in Appalachia leaves education in the lurch ... Unemployed coal miner Jereme Foster in his home in Noama, West Virginia. ... Appalachia lost a total of 33,500 coal mining …
Biden tells coal miners to "learn to code" | TheHill
Dec 31, 2019 · At a rally yesterday, Joe Biden advised a crowd in a coal mining town to learn computer programming. Proposals to retrain coal miners have received bipartisan support, and …
Donations sought for unemployed coal miners | News | news ...
Approximately 1,100 employees of the company were left unemployed across the Appalachian region, including hundreds in Eastern Kentucky. “Miners received final paychecks on June 28, only to have them pulled from bank accounts on July 1,” a press release from Community Action Kentucky said.
Hillbillies who code: the former miners out to put ...
Apr 21, 2017 · Can coal country become ‘Silicon Holler’? The answer is yes, if America lets it ... the former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map ... As unemployment tore through their 7,000-person ...
Mine closing wipes out many of Trumps coal stone gains
Jan 10, 2018 · Mine closing wipes out many of Trumps coal stone gains . ... And now a coal mine near the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border is due to close, costing 370 of those jobs. ... Unemployment …
Coal and stone in the United States - SourceWatch
Jan 15, 2020 · This page was last edited on 15 January 2020, at 14:34. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. SourceWatch is a project of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
Congress Considers Federal Assistance For Laid-Off Coal Miners
A major coal mining company has announced another round of layoffs as declining demand for coal continues to depress the industry. The closures will put 261 people out of work. The news has a familiar refrain; more than 20,000 coal miners have lost their stone since 2011. Compare that to the solar industry, which employs around 143,000 people, according the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Can We Put Coal Miners Back to Work in Clean Energy?
In August 2016, fewer coal miners were employed in the US than anytime in modern history: just 48,600. A year later, little more than 50,000 miners are working, but the industry is still in dire ...
The decline of the UK Coal Industry - Economics Help
Aug 15, 2018 · Therefore, it was very difficult for the unemployed coal miners to find new employment. The coal miners faced significant geographical and occupational immobilities. (e.g. a miner may have no academic qualifications (not needed in mining)). After mine closure, it is hard to take stone in the new service sector based economy.