New Coal Mine Opens, Employs Just 70 People
Is this what Donald Trump meant when he campaigned on being the “greatest jobs president that God ever created”?
The president celebrated the 70 whole jobs created by the Acosta mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, the nation’s newest coal mine.
“When I ended the ‘war on coal,’ I said I would put our incredible miners—and that’s what you are, incredible—back to work,” Trump said after the mine opened last Thursday, likely forgetting that his budget slashes 40 percent, or about $1 billion, from federal job training programs.
Corsa Coal Company CEO George Dethlefsen said 400 people applied for the 70 positions available at the new mine.
Dethlefsen said the mine will help the area’s struggling economy but as Quartz pointed out that’s “significantly fewer than the 92 jobs created by the opening of one American supermarket on average.”
Most of the coal isn’t even staying in the country. According to PennLive, “as for where the coal ultimately…
