Earlier this week Workforce West Virginia revealed that our state's unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) for April was down slightly, from 9.5 percent to 9.2 percent, with about 72,000 "unemployed" workers. However, these figures do not reveal the number of workers who've dropped out of the labor force either because they've can't find work, have gone…
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This picture in yesterday's Charleston Daily Mail got me thinking about how many workers in West Virginia wear a hard hat with a lamp each day. While the best estimates (see here and here and here, and here ) say about 20,000 people work directly in the state's "coal industry," most of these workers are…