[Vision2020] The Longest Trump Pinocchio Ever: 70 coal jobs, not 45, 000

[Nicholas Gier]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/18/1681699/-Trump-says-new-PA-coal-mine-created-45-000-jobs-It-ll-probably-make-70?detail=emaildkre

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates there are roughly 50,800
coal mining jobs nationwide
<https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/CES1021210001;jsessionid=BBDDFA68177DCF788274A16E2C44C076.tc_instance6>,
800 of which have been added since Trump took office. (The six months
before that, under President Barack Obama’s administration, 1,300 coal jobs
were added.)

This isn't the first time we've heard Trump's numbers. Environmental
Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt made a similar claim speaking about all
mining *and* logging jobs
<https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021000001?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true>
 earlier this year, earning a PolitiFact ruling
<http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/05/scott-pruitt/are-coal-mining-jobs-50000-last-year-not-exactly/>
 of "mostly false."

BLS data estimates the nation has added roughly 41,500 new mining and
logging jobs in the first six months of 2017, but just 1,000 of them are
mining (not including oil and gas mining jobs, which account for another
couple thousand.)

To make it even worse, the more accurate job creation number for the
aforementioned Pennsylvania mine is about 70
<http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/02/19/coal-mine-boswell-somerset-county/>.
Unsurprisingly, the White House didn’t respond to NBC News’ request
for comment.

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