Job training and community college put coal miners on a new path
Coal miners in the heart of Appalachia face unemployment and uncertainty as the expansion of automation and natural gas threatens the industry that's been an ...
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JOHN YANG: Now we return to our Rethinking College series. This week, we take a look efforts to help unemployed coal miners earn community college degrees and get on-the-job training. Hari Sreenivasan has our report, part of our weekly segment Making the Grade. HARI SREENIVASAN: In the heart of Appalachia, generations of coal miners have lived through good times and bad. CHRIS FARLEY, Former Coal Miner: We will have some early tomatoes. Then we will have... BERTHA FARLEY, Mother of Chris Farley: Middle. CHRIS FARLEY: Middle tomatoes. Then we will have late tomatoes. BERTHA FARLEY: Late tomatoes to can. HARI SREENIVASAN: When coal miner Chris Farley was laid off two years ago, he began growing food on his grandmother's West Virginia lot to feed his family. BERTHA FARLEY: I'm t...
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JOHN YANG: Now we return to our Rethinking College series. This week, we take a look efforts to help unemployed coal miners earn community college degrees and get on-the-job training. Hari Sreenivasan has our report, part of our weekly segment Making the Grade. HARI SREENIVASAN: In the heart of Appalachia, generations of coal miners have lived through good times and bad. CHRIS FARLEY, Former Coal Miner: We will have some early tomatoes. Then we will have... BERTHA FARLEY, Mother of Chris Farley: Middle. CHRIS FARLEY: Middle tomatoes. Then we will have late tomatoes. BERTHA FARLEY: Late tomatoes to can. HARI SREENIVASAN: When coal miner Chris Farley was laid off two years ago, he began growing food on his grandmother's West Virginia lot to feed his family. BERTHA FARLEY: I'm t...
