The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby's

Posted by sdomino on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:41PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/8-surprisingly-small-industries-that-employ-more-people-than-coal/

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Re:The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby's by Finnucane on Friday March 31, 2017 @01:07PM (#14005807)

The article leaves out that the reason miners would rather have the mining jobs than the Arby's jobs is that the mining jobs pay a lot better. The problem for these folks isn't that there isn't any other employment, there isn't, in a lot of mining areas, other employment that pays as well.

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