Trump Promises to Restore Jobs in an Industry That Collapsed in the 1950s
BY MARTIN KICH Today, Donald Trump spoke in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and promised to restore the jobs of coal miners. I grew up in Scranton, and he might just as well have promised to restore the jobs of telegraph operators or those in typewriter factories. The population of Scranton peaked at more than 140,000 in 1930.…