Real Jobs. That's Coal.
American coal supports more than 600,000 jobs — 135,000 of them are direct jobs for men and women in U.S. coal mining. These are good-paying, middle class jobs that are key to our economic recovery and vital to the economic fabric and future of the communities in which coal mining employees live and work.
These are not here today, gone tomorrow jobs that merely set up infrastructure and provide periodic maintenance at energy producing facilities. These are long-term jobs that are powerful generators of economic opportunity in the communities and states in which coal mining wages are as much as double the statewide average.
And coal-based energy generation outperforms the jobs-creation capabilities of all other energy options.
Coal jobs are real energy jobs everyone can count on.
