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Yeah. There are only ~80,000 coal miners in the US now, which is 0.06% of the full-time employee population.
by JauntTrooper 7y ago
Yeah.
There are only ~80,000 coal miners in the US now, which is 0.06% of the full-time employee population.
- tasty_freeze 7y agoAccording to wikipedia [1], the figure is 50,000. The peak headcount was 883,000, but due to mechanization, those 50,000 way out-produce those 883,000. Looking at the graph on that page, coal production is down but is still higher than what it was 50 years ago. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Stat...