New Coal Mine Opens, Employs Just 70 People

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By Lorraine ChowJun 13, 2017, 2:42 pm138 pts
Is this what Donald Trump meant when he campaigned on being the "greatest jobs president that God ever created"? The president celebrated the 70 whole jobs created by the Acosta mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, the nation's newest coal mine. "When I ended the 'war on coal,' I said I would put our…

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