Why do coal miners want to continue working such a horrible, dirty job?

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109. Because there are no guarantees anyone will support them and their families while they look for work

That means their families go hungry, and will probably lose their homes.

Most of these workers have done this all their lives, and in many cases, so did their fathers. It is a way of life to them.

So along with telling them, find another job they are being told, "and your way of life stinks."

I do not know if you have ever faced retraining after 40 for a job that did not exist when you 16, but it is frightening. They are gong from jobs that will support their families to jobs that pay less. Along with those lower wage jobs, they will have to move because the towns they live in can not absorb the lost jobs. So these people are losing family and friends they've known all of their lives.

So these people face losing everything. Now, if this were our national policy and Congress would fund the billions of dollars to get these workers into new jobs that pay as well as what they lost, that would make things better. That same fantasy congress could fund changing every Coal Fire Power Plant to renewable, and mandate that coal will not be exported to other nations. They could provide aid to those nations for them to get rid of coal.

I understand 100% why they continue to work at horrible, dirty jobs.