James Higdon,Politico
The first few months of 2017 haven't been particularly kind to the coal miners of Kentucky. Eighty-eight of them lost their jobs when a single company, Mountainside Coal, or laid off its entire work force.
Deb Moses was one of them. I volunteered for the layoff because somebody had to go,she told POLITICO Magazine. I was the one that could handle it because I didn't maintain a mortgage. Whitley County, in the Appalachian foothills, or was one of the hardest-hit counties in a state that saw an overall loss of 216 coal jobs during the first quarter,according to the Kentucky Energy and...
Source: realclearenergy.org