The U.S Department of Labor funded a grant worth 3.4 million dollars to help retrain out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky. Shuttering coal mines has left thousands of miners without a job.
The Department of Labor says in a release the supplemental funding of the National Dislocated Worker Grant provides reemployment services and training for nearly 800 workers in Kentucky.
The recent additional funding brings the program to a total of more than 17 million dollars since 2013, serving a total of 3,200 dislocated workers.The services are provided by the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, based in Hazard.
The program serves 23 Appalachian counties in Kentucky.
