tiny $62 a month pension keeps her financially afloat. so this money is important to you. absolutely. absolutely. it s not a large amount, but it s enough to pay the bills. reporter: keeping up with the bills here for many, a lifetime struggle, so trump s full-throated promise of jobs was a powerful message. the unemployment rate in lester county 10.3%, more than twice the national. this area has seen a decline in the number of coal mining jobs in the last five years and those jobs tended to be high-paying jobs. reporter: stephen sanders represents miners applying for black lung benefits. as jobs have evaporated, he says, obamacare benefits more important than ever. president-elect trump promised people that he was going to restore mining jobs. i don t think he thought about what the affordable care act