Saturday, February 3, 2018

Coal is Back – Trumpie Adds 200 Jobs to Coal Mining After Taking Office

Okay Coal Country – You Ready to Meet Mr. Reality Yet

Promises made, promises fulfilled. According to Trumper he has single handedly saved the coal industry and created a huge number of jobs. Well, the numbers are out, here they are.

This is the BLS Raw Data, number of coal miners in (000).



Year
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2007
77.5
77.0
77.1
77.3
76.6
76.7
77.2
76.9
77.0
77.4
77.7
77.2
2008
77.2
77.3
77.6
78.0
79.2
80.3
80.4
82.7
83.6
84.8
86.1
86.3
2009
86.4
85.9
85.2
83.9
82.2
81.0
79.9
80.0
79.4
78.3
77.9
77.7
2010
77.8
78.6
79.1
79.2
80.3
80.2
80.9
81.2
82.0
82.7
83.4
84.0
2011
83.9
83.1
84.4
86.0
87.6
88.3
87.8
88.6
89.3
89.5
89.6
89.4
2012
89.7
89.3
88.9
87.9
87.6
85.8
84.6
83.0
81.6
79.4
79.1
78.9
2013
78.5
79.3
79.4
77.6
78.8
78.6
78.2
77.9
77.3
77.4
77.1
76.8
2014
76.1
75.0
73.5
73.8
74.1
73.9
74.3
73.2
72.7
71.5
70.8
69.8
2015
69.0
68.6
67.9
67.1
66.0
65.0
64.1
62.8
61.7
60.7
58.8
57.1
2016
55.5
53.5
52.1
51.2
49.8
49.0
48.7
48.6
48.6
49.3
49.7
49.7
2017
50.0
50.3
50.4
50.6
50.8
50.8
50.8
51.5
51.7
51.6
50.9(P)
50.5(P


So in February there were 50, 300 coal miners in the nation and at the end of 2017 there were 50,500 coal miners. Yep 200 more. Nice going Donnie, you sure showed everyone how to revive employment in an industry.

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