As the article points out, that retraining in other fields is going on where coal has played out

What the article also highlights is that the grifters hanging on, a few coal companies and their contracted 'training providers' are still pushing coal and the biggest reason or incentive for that isn't to provide jobs to miners, it's to ensure they get a piece of the 10 billion dollar bailout Trump rolled out for his coal baron billionaire buddies

When your 'recovery plan' is designed to reward the people causing the crisis, you have to expect those folks to want to keep the crisis rolling, if only to keep their hands out for the public bailout money

Kinda like the opium producing pharma companies are the main beneficiaries of Trump's 'opiod crisis plan'

It's like Zinke's neighbors in Montana got a corrupt contract in Puerto Rico

It's how crisis grifting is done


Why don't we do the sane thing?   We don't have sane people running the show

We have Trumpism or Republicanism instead