Donald Trump’s effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew modestly, according to preliminary government data obtained by Reuters. Trump made reviving the coal industry, and the declining communities that depend upon its jobs, a central tenet in his presidential campaign and has rolled back Obama-era environmental regulations to give the industry a boost. But the effort has had little impact on domestic demand for coal so far, with U.S. utilities still shutting coal-fired power plants and shifting to cheaper natural gas - moving toward a lower carbon future despite the direction the White House is plotting under Trump. Unreleased full-year coal employment data from the Mining Health and Safety Administration shows total U.S. coal mining jobs grew by 771 to 54,819 during Trump’s first year in office, led by Central Appalachian states like West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania - where coal companies have opened a handful of new mining areas for shipment overseas. “You know, West Virginia is doing fantastically well,” Trump told Reuters in an interview this week about the state, which gained 1,345 coal jobs last year, according to the data. “It’s great coal.” But the industry also lost jobs in other Appalachian states like Ohio, Kentucky, and Maryland; the western Powder River Basin states Montana and Wyoming; as well as in several other states like Indiana, New Mexico, and Texas. Texas lost the largest number, at 455, and Ohio was a close second, losing 414, according to the data. Pennsylvania, which gained 96 jobs in 2017, is also expected to go negative soon after Dana Mining announced this month it would close a mine employing about 400 people. Overall, the number of U.S. coal jobs is still lingering near historic lows at less than one-third the level in the mid-1980s, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, as the industry loses market share to cheaper natural gas. (Click here for a graphic: tmsnrt.rs/2DOsZk2) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...sh-stumbles-in-most-states-data-idUSKBN1F81AK
So coal mining jobs have shrunked drastically every year under Obama. When Trump gets into office they grow modestly over the past year. Yet somehow Trump is a failure in help jobs in the coal sector according to liberals.
Success and failure is a function of one's own promises. Obama never promised to increase coal jobs, Trump promised 'yuge' growth which ofcourse is a dud.
Actually Obama delivered better job growth, so let's ask the miners about that war you read on daily caller. The average number of coal-mining jobs under the Obama administration has been 15.3 percent higher than the average under George W. Bush, according to a new report [PDF] from the nonprofit Appalachian Voices. The report tries to debunk the claim made by coal-mining companies that Obama is waging war on them. The growth in coal-mining jobs in all of the leading coal-mining states is attributable, the group says, to a surge in exports and to a decline in mining efficiency as workers attempt to scour the last deposits from mines. http://grist.org/climate-energy/coal-mining-jobs-on-the-rise-under-obama/
So Bush was President from 2001 to 2009. Obama was President from the beginning of 2009 till the very start of 2017. So much for your assertion.
Why are you looking at eight years? Is Trump done with his two terms? I compared Obama's first year with Trump's first year, isn't that how one should do comparisons when one presidency is still ongoing?
Why don't we just compare the 8 years of Bush to the 8 years of Obama to see how silly and incorrect your assertion is.