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Trump’s Coal Revival Vow Emboldens Miners to Shun Career Change
Retraining reticence for in-demand health care jobs is part economic and part cultural
Men take coal samples at a coal prep plant outside the city of Welch, West Virginia, on May 19, 2017.
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West Virginia is so strongly associated with coal that the state flag features a miner with pickax over his shoulder.
A nurse with a stethoscope might be more fitting.