was killed. the day of the miner s funeral, a new contract was signed. ironically, in the same room where the funeral was held. over the years, the dangerous work in harlan county miners dying from coal dust. poverty gripped the region. in harlan they say it is a boom or bust business. it has been a bust around here lately. the unemployment rate is 18%, 25% of the people who live in the county are below the federal poverty line. compounding the problem, the loss of coal jobs. it has been mined for a hundred years now. a boom and bust industry. unfortunately for eastern kentucky, coal has been the afaand the omega, no other
that is all coal has ever done for me. i am the kentucky candidate who will forge relationships and bipartisan alipss to make sure we restore coal to the rightful place as a prime american export. that is how we get jobs for everybody in kentucky. the members of the community aren t county on it. i saw somebody say, coal is going away you know it can make a comeback, the thing is i don t have time to wait for a comeback. instead, young people are leaving, that is our resources, they are leaving. so, do you want to hold on to this coal resource or hold on to your resource of people? i think people need to face up to it fact that if our nation doesn t do something to get in to some different types of renewable energies, it is going to be the end of us all.
uepa played a big part of it. people in coal mining know it comes meetings it am cans down, you have the president of the united states stands up on national tv and said he will shut the coal mines down, it is not on him, but it has to start somewhere. the president s environmental agenda is at odds at the coal industry, it is meant to be. fossil fuel power plants are one of the biggest emissions of co2, that is a threat to the climate, that is where the epa emissions comes through. they propose to cut emissions by 30%. this is the single biggest blow, while kentucky is expected to meet a lower goal 18% reduction, the new regulations have become an easy political
industry to speak of. during the bust times, everything collapses in the economy. the decrease in coal jobs in aplatchia, 21,000 coal jobs left kentucky since the 1980s, and the eastern part of of the state is bore the brunt of that loss. we have seep a 37.5% drop in coal jobs. say it again, since 2011 37.5 left kentucky? it is a huge amount. coal drops have been disappears at an alarm are rate. the jobs left. if tuask people in harlan what is causing the drop off? how did you understand?
industry. both of their campaigns spent a lot of time and money assuring voters they were fighting the president s so-called war on coal. after traveling to the mountains of kentucky, and talking to those people there, the rhetoric on the campaign trail didn t match the reality. a war on coal is a war on kentucky. this fight has just begun. we will push back in every single way we can. we are going to stop this war on coal! in kentucky there is a war on the war on coal. i don t agree with the president s war on coal. i think it is wrong for kentucky. a fierce competition is being waged to win the approval of voters. the war on coal is not just a war on eastern kentucky, it is war on the state.