'I'd just like to say, 'where you at? You got 420 people here, a lot of them backed you. And now you're not here to back them. Where you at?'' As West Virginia miners feel the coal country crisis, they share messages for Trump with Gary Tuchman.
Despite many promises from President Trump that he would bring back coal jobs, the industry has only added 500 jobs, or a 1% increase, during his first year in office.
The mine is the 4 West Mine, owned by Mepco LLC. In a notice sent to the state of Pennsylvania last week, the company said that the mine is no longer productive enough to be economically competitive given current market conditions. It will be permanently shut. The decision is a blow for Greene County, a rural area of only about 38,000 people. The mine is the fourth largest private sector employer in the county, according to the state figures. Unemployment now stands at 5.2%, somewhat above the national average, but there aren't many jobs in the region that offer similar pay.
Zimmerman said another mine in the county closed two years ago, and it's been apparent for sometime that the industry wasn't going to bounce back to its former strength.
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