she said as good if not better than they do. reporter: strength isn t the only thing they have in common. who voted for president trump? i had a little bit of reservations of him as a person and the way he is, but voting wise no. reporter: do you think he s being treated fairly? no. i think it s awful. reporter: what about all those campaign promises trump made to bring coal mining jobs back. have you seen that? yes. there has been more jobs in the base. they are hiring now. reporter: thousands of jobs. 250 have been rehired. within the base, within 10 or 12 mines we have here. reporter: that s not the numbers he promised. i think it s a process. reporter: part of that process they say is easing environmental restrictions on coal. something trump did by taking america out of the paris climate
should stay in and you have labor leaders saying this is the wrong more. for american businesses and workers, the voices that speak says this is a bad move. if you have coal miners at home watching the president s speech in the rose garden, they could lose their jobs. those coal miners under the paris accord. if you look at coal mining jobs over the past century, they have been steady for the past couple decades. the reason we lost coal mining jobs is because of greater productivity in the coal mining industry. we ought to be doing something to ensure a fair transition for every american worker. the truth is if america s economy will grow and we stay competitive, we should be at the cutting edge of the clean energy revolution. donald trump has put up a closed for business sign on clean energy in the country. that is an interesting point. listen to the harrowing predictions that trump put out there. the cost to the economy at
the reality is the jobs of the future are not coal mining jobs, they re energy jobs that come from clean energy, like solar and wind. there are more solar jobs created by wind than there are in the field of coal and oil and gas combined. electricity generation. it doesn t help even the people of pittsburgh. the mayor of pittsburgh was talking about this the other day, that donald trump says he represents pittsburgh and not paris. but not only did pittsburgh vote for hillary clinton, but they re not represented by the notion that the coal mining society, this is a future oriented nation, future oriented city in pittsburgh. the president basically put us back in the 20th century, while china and other countries are taking advantage of the 21st century. others in the nation say they ll be environmentally friendly. but what comes up is the budget
better than they do. strength isn t the only thing they are in common. who voted for president trump? i had a little bit of residence es reservations for the way he is. do you think he is being treated fairly? no, i think it s awful. reporter: what about the campaign promises trump made to bring coal mining jobs back? have you seen that? yeah there are more jobs in the base opening up. they are hiring now. i wouldn t say thousands. i know 250 have been rehired. within the basin, within the 10 or 12 mines we have here. that is not the numbers that he promised. i think it s a process. reporter: and part of that process, they say, easing environmental restrictions on coal. something trump did by taking america out of the paris climate
jobless rate that low. 14.3%. one of the reasons we ve had strong job gains for months. some people dropped out of the labor market. that drove the jobless rate down. look at job creation. 80 months in a row, a record of private sector job growth. but you re seeing the pace of the job gains moderate. 138,0 138,000 less than they had been forecasting. job contains compared with last year and the year before you re seeing the pace of job growth slow. still good but slowing. here are the sectors. manufacturing lost 1,000 jobs. mining and logging gained. some were told were coal mining jobs. health care, steady performer. 24,000 net new jobs created in health care. the president has promised to create 25 million.