Let’s do some cipherin’. $39,000,000 divided by 3400 jobs (in agriculture) is just a little over a grand a job.
“The investments are expected to create or retain more than 3,400 jobs in agriculture, health care, manufacturing, technology and other industries. “
So, they’re spending that money to retain jobs. Obviously a payoff to Clinton supporters to dull the loss of high-paying coal jobs. That $39 million probably doesn’t even come close to the total monthly wages of the former coal miners.
This will just go to Clinton supporters, and not do anything about unemployment in the coal seam.
Sorry for the bad math. It’s about 10 grand.
It’s just a redux of Obama’s “create or save jobs” lie from back in the beginning of his first term.