Report: Trump policies may do little to help boost Utah coal mining jobs

April 20, 2017 (KSL.com)

The coal-friendly policies of the Trump administration may not be enough to reverse the tide of decreasing jobs in the mining industry, despite assurances by the new U.S. president to put coal miners back to work.
That conclusion is one of several findings in a report released Wednesday by the Utah Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization.
The foundation’s second report looking at coal mining and coal-fired electrical generation in the state focused specifically on employment, the decline in industry jobs and what economic value coal generates for the state’s economy.
Utah’s coal mining economic output, as an example, is estimated at $579 million in direct impacts, and it climbs to nearly $900 million when factoring in direct, indirect and induced impacts, such as ancillary trucking jobs and excavation work.

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