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David McKinley: “The first newspaper I got when I got back there was, dark day for miners. They just announced that 2,268 coalmining jobs…”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
The first newspaper I got when I got back there was, dark day for miners. They just announced that 2,268 coalmining jobs were lost.
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David McKinley
Republican · West Virginia

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McKinley highlights significant coal mining job losses affecting families in West Virginia.

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