{"id":91611,"date":"2025-09-30T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91611"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:10:31","slug":"decline-in-coal-employment-between-1950-and-the-2000s-from-half-a-million-miners-to-around-80000-even-as-coal-production-remained-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91611","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;decline in coal employment between 1950 and the 2000s, from half a million miners to around 80,000&#8221; even as coal production remained stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/fossil-fuels-and-fossilized-minds\">https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/fossil-fuels-and-fossilized-minds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The collapse of rural America has been so extreme, and the implications so grim, that nobody in leadership was willing to talk about it. That was a colossal failure.<\/p>\n<p>Coal decline was automation and technique. Those jobs aren&#8217;t coming back. The people and communities are zombie shells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/fossil-fuels-and-fossilized-minds The collapse of rural America has been so extreme, and the implications so grim, that nobody in leadership was willing to talk about it. That was a colossal failure. Coal decline was automation and technique. Those jobs aren&#8217;t coming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91612,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91611\/revisions\/91612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}