Claim: "Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs."
Fact-check: Are coal mining jobs up by 50,000 since last year?
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2017-06-05T00:00:00