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Tacked onto the massive omnibus spending bill moving through Congress is an expanded bailout for select retired coal miners one that amounts to $1.7 billion, or $100,000 of taxpayer dollars per beneficiary just within the next 10 years! So how did one particular coal-mining union the United Mine Workers of America manage to secure an unprecedented federal bailout? And what’s the lesson here?