There are fewer coal miners than you might realize.

[Cattledog]

In May 2015, there were 69,460 jobs in coal mining itself — only 15,900 of which were extraction workers or helpers, mining machine operators or earth drillers.

That’s 0.019 percent of the American workforce.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/20/there-are-fewer-coal-miners-than-you-might-realize/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.04ba4e1541c7

[Wellstone ruled]

1. And that number will soon

take a major hit in the next couple of months. Believe there are several Coal Fired Power Plants that will either switch to Gas or shut down.

[Salviati]

2. That's as many Physicists as there are out there.

If only we had has as much of an outsized influence on the election as the oft touted "coal miner"

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes192012.htm

[truebluegreen]

3. Fewer jobs in coal than in solar, iirc