New study: it would be cheap to retrain coal workers for solar jobs – Vox

New study: it would be cheap to retrain coal workers for solar jobs

Coal is dying in the US, and solar is booming. That’s good news for a whole variety of reasons, but it sucks for the people who work in the coal industry, which has shed 50,000 jobs in the last five years. What if all those unemployed coal workers could get jobs in the solar industry?