Some guy in a wolf suit showed up at Tom Wolf’s York campaign headquarters with a sign that said “Stop Tom Wolf’s war on coal. Corbett says the coal industry provides 60,000 Pennsylvania jobs. He pulled these figures out of the air.
On June 7 the Morning Call published a list of the ten top counties with coal mining jobs. Greene County led the list with 3,544 jobs. Jefferson County was tenth with 116 jobs. Carbon, named for coal, had 35 coal mining jobs. Lehigh and Northampton had none. I added up the top ten counties and came out with 7377 jobs.
To put this in perspective, in the last four years, under the Corbett administration, approximately 20,000 teachers lost their jobs.
Republicans never could add.
ReplyDeleteThey sure know how to subtract jobs, however.
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