ruggedly beautiful in dopely poor appalachia has struggled. we ve had coal for 100 years. reporter: and coal is gone? pretty much. reporter: in her spare time she runs black sheep bakery and pizza. the money it brings in helps the local community center stay open. ware fighting for a better community here. we got people who are hurting coming out of incarceration. reporter: not only have high-paying coal jobs sharply declined since 2012, despite promises otherwise. in 2017, we added fewer than 20 jobs and in 2018 we lost a few hundred more. coal industry in kentucky has not come back. reporter: opioid and drug abuse dealing appalachia a double punch. once i tried heroin, i was
and pretty much. gwen johnson runs a bakery. it helps the local community center stay open. we re fighting for a better community here. we got people who are hurt and coming out of incarceration. not only have high-paying coal jobs sharply declined since 2012, despite promises otherwise. in 2017, we added fewer than 20 jobs and in 2018, we lost a few hundred more. so the coal industry in kentucky has not come back. opioid and drug abuse dealing rural appalachia a double punch. once i tried heroin, i was 100% addicted like the first time. brad johnson served three years in the military one tour in iraq he s now in recovery what he calls the toughest fight in his 34 years.
god for us to use there. will be some coal jobs, and maybe they can find a way to use it. but as it is right now, it s not helping the predicament we re already in as far as the climate. reporter: when you year, politicians and president trump down, talking about saving coal mining, coal miners. baloney, it s baloney. reporter: do you think that as americans we need to shift to a different form of energy and not rely on let s just say that i signed up for a wind technician job. reporter: you re there? oh, yeah. that was yet another fantastic report from trymaine lee. there is a potential buyer for the wyoming mines. the company that owned them previously, but the fate of the miners still renanz unsettled. coming up, shocking new court documents shows the trump administration is still separating families at the border defying a court order. like job. when he was diagnosed with cancer,
together and hoping the meat. this idea that things are so peachy and cream for people of communities of color, it s a false narrative, not reality. neil: what did you think? what he said was a false narrative. certainly not everyone is going to be happy in anyone situation but we ve got record job openings, more job openings and their people to fill them. we talk about what s happening in the appalachian region. coal jobs, factory jobs, african-american unemployment would never be reduced. it will always be high. that s another lie. these are all false narratives that they are trying to combat, especially the presidential candidates. they are trying to combat the false narratives. we are going to raise taxes, $15 minimum wage. it s going to put people out of business when there s a lot of jobs out there that people can go get them. neil: you are your own man. you say the good and bad about the president, good and bad about democrats. look forward to the book. always a pleasure h
whether you are on the southside of chicago or the appellation region and your poor white working class they have take us for granted, they lied that the elites normally saying coal jobs would never come back, factory jobs would not come back and unemployment in the african-american community would always be high. of a lied to us and we are seeing a change in that dynamic now and i m thankful to have people like you, brian to endorse my broke in anchorage everyone to to go to my site and preorder the book and also follow me on instagram, twitter and facebook. brian: here s an excerpt from the book. it says my core principles are with save me from becoming a statistic, the same values that it saved hundreds of millions whether they know it or not and still draw people from around the world to the us every single day and you get pushed back within the black community, but you did your research and you knew when republicans pushing for