U.S. Gave Up Climate Accord: Gained 10,000 Mining Jobs

Remember 2016 when news stories concentrated on job losses in the mining industry?

ProfLERoy visited the Bureau of Labor Statistics website to update this story. The ugly graph above provides a current snapshot.

Sure enough, President Trump’s massive deregulation of air quality and mining standards have added jobs: 10,000 new jobs since he took office—up from 180,000 in 2016 to 190,000 in August 2018.

The gain is small.

Even smaller are the number of mining jobs relative to 145 million jobs in the U.S. economy. Basically, U.S. policy favors these 1 in 1,000 jobs so much that the nation is willing to accept massive climate change effects that result from pumping more carbons in the air.

The data can be verified here: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES1021200001?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true