INSIGHT-Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining
November 01, 2017 at 07:00 AM EDT
By Valerie Volcovici WAYNESBURG, Pa., Nov 1 (Reuters) - When Mike Sylvester entered a career training center earlier this year in southwestern Pennsylvania, he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing. He settled instead on something familiar: a coal mining course. "I think there is a coal comeback,” said the 33-year-old son of a miner. Despite broad consensus about coal's bleak future, a years-long effort