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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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