SENATE BILL: Appalachian Region Development Act (Passed)

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I alluded to this in a recent post on the FC board, but how would we feel about investing in a job retraining program for out-of-work coal miners and offering a lifetime UBI for miners who can't be retrained?  This should be a worthwhile strategy for a region that historically has been so dependent on coal.

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So from what I understand, two senators oppose UBI, two support it, and two oppose job retraining.

I am personally in favor of both but I think it makes more practical sense to make job retraining more available to younger workers.  I would assume it should be relatively inexpensive, because most young people are not pursuing jobs in coal mining.  In fact (and I don't have the numbers in front of me), I would assume that more young people are leaving the Appalachian region purely because job opportunities are scarce.

Still, we probably should make retraining available to tenured miners as well as more and more of those jobs are lost to automation.

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Are we going to need Lumine for this?

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Are we going to need Lumine for this?

Why would we? The GM no longer is responsible for cost estimates.

Right, sorry.  I should have said Clyde.