And so with Scott Pruitt's claim of 50,000 more coal jobs:"Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we’ve added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. There're a number of different ways we can measure this but the most obvious one is the number of coal miners. And here is All Employees, Mining and Logging, Coal Mining, from FRED:FRED public databaseGiven that we've perhaps 50,000 coal mining jobs in total and we didn't have none before Trump was elected then we've not added 50,000 coal mining jobs since the election. But we can have a rather larger definition of coal mining as well:The EPA pointed us to a separate interview Pruitt had on ABC’s This Week, when he said, "We've had over 50,000 jobs since last quarter -- coal jobs, mining jobs -- created in this country. We had almost 7,000 mining and coal jobs created in the month of May alone."

Source: Forbes June 06, 2017 16:52 UTC