State to get $5.6 million for laid-off miners (WV)

State to get $5.6 million for laid-off miners
By Jonathan Mattise
Associated Press
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 01:11 AM EDT

CHARLESTON — West Virginia will receive an additional $5.6 million in federal grants to help coal workers affected by mine closures and layoffs.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced Thursday that WorkForce West Virginia will receive National Emergency grants through 2016 for displaced miners. The state received $1.8 million in 2012.

Tomblin said the Department of Labor assistance will provide re-employment services and job training for 700 mine workers.

“Layoffs and mine closures are frustrating for our miners and their families — they depend on their jobs to keep food on the table and a roof overhead,” Tomblin said in a news release.

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