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by Spooky23 3308 days ago
That scratches the surface. There are a lot of railroad jobs and other sectors supporting coal as well.
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Even if you add in all the transportation and power plant jobs, it's still only about the size of the #10 fast food chain. For example, Domino's Pizza (#8) employs more people than all of coal mining, transport and power generation combined plus another 90,000.