<div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:30px 60px;margin:20px 0px;font-size:16px;border:none;width:480px;line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);color:rgb(60,55,54);font-family:"Open Sans";letter-spacing:0.125px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px"><a href="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">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</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:10px 0px">The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><a href="https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/CES1021210001;jsessionid=BBDDFA68177DCF788274A16E2C44C076.tc_instance6" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(153,107,61)">estimates there are roughly 50,800 coal mining jobs nationwide</a>, 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.)</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">This isn't the first time we've heard Trump's numbers. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt made a similar claim speaking about<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><a href="https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021000001?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(153,107,61)">all mining<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">and</em><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span>logging jobs</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span>earlier this year, earning a<span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/05/scott-pruitt/are-coal-mining-jobs-50000-last-year-not-exactly/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(153,107,61)">PolitiFact ruling</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span>of "mostly false."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">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.)</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(60,55,54);font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.125px">To make it even worse, the more accurate job creation number for the aforementioned Pennsylvania mine <a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/02/19/coal-mine-boswell-somerset-county/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(153,107,61)">is about 70</a>. Unsurprisingly, the White House didn’t respond to NBC News’ request for comment.</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>   <div style="height:auto;width:auto">   <div> <div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. </span><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><br style="font-size:13.3333px"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">-Greek proverb</span></div><div><br>
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance 
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not 
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it 
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your 
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
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--Immanuel Kant<br>
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