No one will help these people. The struggle to find some sort of work but are hated as “crackers” by blacks and environmentalist whites. Coal isn’t coming back. During the election, Republicans will talk “pretty” and do nothing while progressives will promise to totally do away with coal and oil and promise “retraining” which will be worthless and at best qualify them to work at McDonalds. Same thing that happened to steelworkers, miners and basic manufacturing workers. Screw both lying parties.
A Democrat governor of West Virginia once famously told out-of-work West Virginians to “hit the hillbilly highway to North Carolina” if they were unhappy there. A lot of them did. Not everybody is able to just pull up stakes and go, though.
Coal MUST make a comeback.
Millions have been well spent in “clean coal” rendering. The power plants of the Rust Belt NEED that clean coal. Many coal sources power plants have been shut down. We are rolling the dice that we won’t have rolling outages (in a abnormally hot summer or extended artic blast winter.
The “war on coal” was the green excuse to throw BILLIONS of tax payer dollar at democratic donors who were “developing” solar. Til it failed
The greens have also mortally wounded nuclear. Westinghouse is fading fast.
And I say all of this from the land of coal AND fracking, SW PA. We have the natural resources. We have the workforce and the technology, it’s a damn SHAME that politicians have sold US out.
Mr. Trump is our LAST BEST HOPE!