Coal Mining Jobs Drop 15 Percent In Eastern Kentucky In First Half Of 2019

CUMBERLAND, KENTUCKY - AUGUST 26: Coal is loaded onto a truck at a mine on August 26, 2019 near Cumberland, Kentucky. Eastern Kentucky, once littered with coal mines, is seeing that lifeblood rapidly slip away. The region has lost more than 15 percent of its mining jobs in the past year and less than a third of the jobs remain from a decade ago. Recently, more than 300 miners lost their jobs in Cumberland when Blackjewel LLC declared bankruptcy and shut down their mining operations. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)