originally posted in:Secular Sevens
Found a figure: coal mining jobs constitute less than a tenth of a percent of the labour force in the United States. I don't think that's nearly a significant enough figure for people to be too worried about the frictional unemployment that would be associated with the loss of a fraction of those jobs over 15 years, though I could be wrong.
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Edited by Diplomat: 6/14/2014 2:21:19 AMPaul Krugman recently penned an article in the NYT where he wrote that coal miners represent a figure less than the amount of jobs lost per week during the recession.