New coal jobs might not exist
Tom DiChristopher
5 Hours Ago
... Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said last week on the ABC news program "This Week": "We've had over 50,000 jobs since last quarter — coal jobs, mining jobs — created in this country. We had almost 7,000 mining and coal jobs created in the month of May alone" ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics did report that the mining sector added an estimated 6,600 jobs in May. However, that estimated change from the prior month was not big enough for the department's statisticians to say with certainty whether the mining sector — which has about 650,000 jobs overall — actually created or lost any jobs ...
... The bureau can't count every American worker every month, so it surveys a pool of businesses. It then estimates how much employment rose or fell for the whole sector based on labor changes among the companies it surveyed. When the estimated change is too small, the bureau concludes that employment was "roughly unchanged" in the sector, a bureau spokesperson told CNBC.
... the estimated change in mining jobs in May was so small relative to the overall size of the sector that it's not safe to say whether more boots actually hit the ground ...
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/15/new-coal-jobs-the-trump-team-is-touting-might-not-actually-exist.html
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Any new coal mining jobs will go to robots, not humans.
Just sayin'
