More than 30,000 coal miners have lost their jobs in the last six years. But now an innovative program is designed to help miners switch careers. When Josh McNett of Waynesburg lost his job in the coal mines after nine years, he was, he says, “Very nervous because I didn’t have any type of secondary schooling or anything like that being right out of high school.”
All across southwestern Pennsylvania coal mines have shut down, leaving hundreds of coal miners out of work. Now a local group says it wants to train coal miners to be software developers. “We’ll work through for now just the basics of how it’s working,” Jonathan Graham tells a class. “Then we’ll go through together, we’ll get the environment set up.” Graham and his spouse Amanda Laucher are the founders of Mined Mines, a training center in Waynesburg to teach coal miners and others how to write the computer code needed to create websites, apps, and everything on a computer.
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