He’s the resident jokester, wearing blue Chuck Taylors and a fierce red mountain beard that hipsters can try to mimic, but would fail. “Last 24, I went through the pattern lab demo,” says Garland Couch, the Xbox guy, an ex-mine manager draped in an oversized polo shirt. J. Paul Gorman, one of Appalachia’s newest coders. Justice compares the disruption to the way Uber’s turning the cab industry inside out. Several months later, in April 2014, in response to a comment by Mark Zuckerberg about shifts in energy use that has led to many coal mines being closed and coal miners behind laid off, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Future of Energy Summit said, "You’re not going to teach a coal miner to code. The mine security guards. He, Parrish, and Hall want to fill up their buildings, create an incubator for entrepreneurs, a makerspace for craftsmen, and, someday, if they play their cards incredibly well, a bonafide Pikeville tech scene. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. “You’re not going to teach a coal miner to code.”. Instead, Lafer recommended training people and investing in industries that have to stay local. Left to right, Garland Couch, Michael Harrison, William Stevens and Brack Quillen take a break outside the office. Justice segues into motivational mode. The U.S. Department of Labor announced a fund of nearly $5 million for working training programs in Appalachia earlier this year. That’s the magic.”. In Pike County, the only major non-coal factory churns out Pop-Tarts for Kellogg’s. Justin Hall, blue, works with coder Adriana Abshire and others. Appalachia’s newest startup founder might be fueled by endless reserves of renewable Rusty Justice energy. “People are going to have to get laid off,” Andrew Cosgrove, a mining analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence has said. “I don’t know how to break it to you …. BitSource coders work on troubleshooting two of their current projects. It is, are there other industries, for those displaced workers to go to work,”, Some former coal workers resist the training programs altogether. “People are going to have to get laid off,” Andrew Cosgrove. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. An employment ad for BitSource . In fact, he said, they were running classes all the time, teaching teens and college grads how to program. I flap it open. That’s not how it works, but I digress. Proposals to retrain coal miners … There go the train operators. The group settles around a long table, and bow their heads as Hall says grace, before digging into their enchiladas and Californian burritos. Retraining programs have received bipartisan support. The plan would invest in assets of mining communities, "like a rich culture, natural beauty, a proven workforce, and entrepreneurial spirit.". The two kept thinking about what Such said about coding being a trade. “I think that job training keeps being promoted because it solves a political problem both for elected officials and for employers, but it doesn’t do anything for the economics,” Gordon Lafer, a University of Oregon professor and author of “The Job Training Charade” told Ohio Valley ReSource. Appalachian Miners Are Learning to Code By . Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”. “Last 24: definitely have not looked at C#,” says Michael Harrison. Proposals to retrain coal miners have received bipartisan support, and The U.S. Department of Labor announced a grant of nearly $5 million for working training programs in Appalachia this year. If you are a logic-based thinker willing to work and learn new things, we have a career opportunity for you. As America goes digital, its bluest collar workers are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. At first Ratliff struggled to keep up. Now this is like going into an empty stadium, that’s crumbling. Aug 25, … Intrigued, Justice and Parrish piled back into the F-150. They’d driven up from Pikeville, turning onto the Mountain Parkway, cutting down through the shale mountains, and chatting like always. You *can* teach a coal miner to code. Laucher and Graham said they saw an … “I will if you will,” Justice said. The late afternoon sun cuts across the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Although they are often touted as a solution, retraining programs have a questionable record of success. By Jeff Donlan. One guy was a college-educated mechanic who’d repaired conveyer belts running out the mines on the third-shift “dead crew.” Another was a brawny former Army corporal who inspected the mines for safety hazards. Bit Source is proving that coal miners can, indeed, learn how to code, and do it well. I wanted to make sure I’d exhausted every revenue source.” Still, he got a face-to-face interview. He acknowledged the economic setbacks and job insecurity that coal miners face these days, and gave them some advice: learn to code. But they’re not nostalgic either. His backup plan was to follow strip mining work to Wyoming, but the thought of missing his three teens’ last years at home killed him. There go 70 percent of Justice’s construction jobs. “We need to do something.”, In the weeks that followed, they lined up the details. Outsiders have never gotten Appalachia — or else, they get the version they want: the one with the meth and Mountain Dew mouth, the incest, the painkillers, the welfare, all captured by journalists parachuting in for their regular dose of poverty porn. “You’re a bad liar,” says Justin Hall, the team leader and BitSource president. Whatever happens, the same-old isn’t going to work. The job, they determined, would start with a 22-week training program to learn how to code. By Kevin Collier. “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday.. Meet the Company Teaching Coal Miners To Code - Duration: 4:25. Then, a plan for profit (Justice and Parrish didn’t want a do-gooder charity, they wanted to build a real business.). There go the machinery vendors and mechanics. It’s a rainy Saturday morning, and Justice wants to take me around the place. Not all programming is esoteric and difficult, and programming skills apply in job areas all over the planet, not just silicon valley, and not just dedicated programming jobs. It’s just as important they know he’s speaking emoji when he says “sad face” in a sentence, and that they crack up at programmer memes. His brown beard is edged with gray. There was a surface miner. Hall is happy with all the updates, whether they’re serious or not. Dell monitors sat on a dozen desks, murals of Appalachians who’d made it big covered the walls. They move some of the earth back into place and grow grass to stabilize the fresh soil and make it look mountain-ish again. Famous historical residents of Appalachia decorate a wall in the main workroom of BitSource. The real question isn't can you teach some specific coal miner to code. The bartenders. We just need playing time.”, The Rusty Justice seminar concludes for today. But, Rusty thought a potential miner-to-coder pipeline actually makes a weird kind of sense. “The rest is kinda history…. And could they actually sit in a chair for eight hours a day? On the other, Hall claims to be a descendent of “Devil Anse” Hatfield — as in those Hatfields, the ones from the bloody Hatfield-McCoy feud, with the sites where they shot at each other or were buried dotting the surrounding hollers. Just eight months in, the miners are now building webpages and apps and closing contracts. One new venture in Kentucky offers a solution: teaching coal miners how to code. “I’m trying to sound smart and sell tech,” he says. A former Coca-Cola bottling plant is the new home to BitSource. COVID-19 recovery spending could catalyze transformative change, but time is running out, What the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests have achieved so far, 'Christmas Star,' not seen in 800 years, will light up on longest night of the year, There's an environmental disaster happening in your washing machine. And someone had to turn him around at the end of every row. Most had heard the program’s radio ad. A jolly 50-something man who had sold equipment to the coal companies, and made use of his unemployment to become a Baptist minister. “It’s like welding. He wasn’t alone. “That’s when we said,” Parrish recalls, “we’ve been working with tradespeople all our life.”. The distaste… “It was like waving a red flag in front of a bull’s face.”. Trainees would be paid $15 an hour, which came from federal funds pumped through a regional economic development agency. But it’s fragile, just 10 people out of thousands, and it has yet to even recover its costs, let alone make a profit. But if San Francisco’s 20-somethings can create apps to bring them dinner and wash their laundry, then here, the developers can scratch their own itches in a different way. Ratliff dialed the foreman back the next day. Rusty Justice doesn’t think about Michael Bloomberg very often. During a rally yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in Derry, N.H., a town that many miners call home. Teaching Coal Miners to Code. First, a name (they picked BitSource, after realizing that a coder’s “bit” could be a play on bituminous coal.) Now that they graduated from training and had started building their first professional webpages, the $18-an-hour BitSource wage for junior coders still didn’t match mining. Other than taking chewing tobacco breaks, it’s their one social activity (no happy hours when everyone commutes an hour each way to work, or has kids to get back to). Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code. They find the toothless guy, the trailers with shotguns racked up on the wall and the yard strewn with diapers and beer cans, and they film some dude saying weird shit in a backcountry accent that needs subtitles to comprehend, they give it an ominous title like “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains,” and they leave. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!” Biden's campaign has proposed moving the U.S. away from fossil fuels to reduce the country’s carbon footprint. Another question on the assessment: Would you rather overhaul an engine or give a presentation? It reads: WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. They met Marvin Laucher, Ms. Laucher’s brother, the former coal miner, now their main instructor. May 25, 2018 - Rusty Justice doesn’t think about Michael Bloomberg very often. Every cross section of the country has its staple industry. The question is what percentage of coal miners could be taught to code to a professional level in a reasonable amount of time. but no.”. It’s Friday, and that means team lunch. News Joe Biden Coding Coal 2020 Election During a campaign event on Monday, Joe Biden suggested coal miners could simply learn to code to transition to "jobs of the future." Justice and his business partner M. Lynn Parrish—they’ve run Jigsaw Enterprises together for five years—have long accepted it: coal is basically over. Hall was the one who scrapped together open-sourced curriculum for BitSource. I wanted to be a part of it.”. Sep 06, 2016. All rights reserved. He advocates helping lifelong miners secure sustainable jobs and keep their benefits. Conversely, if everything worked, they would all make money, and the miners would have some of the first coding jobs in Appalachia. BitSource would like to hire a second class of coders at the beginning of the new year. His plan calls for a 'Task Force on Coal and Power Plant Communities' to reinvigorate communities that depend on mining and coal as their economic backbone. The two had looked for a solution in several potential industries over the last two years: wind farms, fish farms, farm farms. Ratliff is a solid 6-foot-2, fourth-generation miner, a 38-year-old with a stoic, worn bearing. To say that his handlers must have been gnashing their teeth is an understatement. Shawn — the former reporter with a Colonel Sanders-esque beard — critiques FX’s Justified, which is set in nearby Harlan county. Michael Harrison grabs his lunchbox, the same one he used in his coal mining days. Rusty hands me one as I step out of the F-150 in front of my hotel. Coal piles at the base of a conveyor belt after being cleaned. One new venture in Kentucky offers a solution: teaching coal miners how to code. It’s important they know how to fix headers. The need for a solution for coal miners continues. Josh Benton, the deputy secretary of the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet in mining-heavy Kentucky, told Ohio Valley ReSource that the biggest problem is whether or not workers actually have other jobs based out of where they live. “I definitely did not create a cool little zombie scene with a first-person character in Unity while I was waiting.”, “Last 24, I fixed the header,” he says. As the bluegrass horse pastures of central Kentucky faded into the red-tinged oak trees covering the Appalachians, they started chatting. They filed into a glass-walled conference room along with a gang of other Kentucky entrepreneurs, to speak with the space’s 29-year-old co-founder Nick Such. That day, Rusty wanted to get them jazzed about his new idea: A hydroseeding app. There were 10 newbies, and they did a quick round of introductions. You’re not going to teach a coal miner to code. In the rain, the old structures are desolate and spooky, ghosts of a mythic industry I’ve never seen up close before. “I’m just seeing this now,” he says, before reading out the news of more mines closing and hundreds of new layoffs since Alpha, the coal company, filed for bankruptcy. For instance, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a conference in 2014: "You're not going to teach a coal miner to code." Jigsaw is right there in that corrugated steel building. Although they are often touted as a solution, retraining programs have a questionable record of success, Some displaced coal workers do transition into other fields or industries, but c. ritics say that the jobs that former coal workers usually find tend to pay only $12 to $15 dollars per hour as opposed to the approximate $75,000 a year salary that coal workers had while working in the mines. Each coal job supports three-and-a-half others, which means if you pull the plug on them, the economy goes out. © 2020 Condé Nast. He was right — the people in this room had won the lotto. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently announced $2 million in funding from the National Dislocated Workers fund, and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced a fund of more than $1 million from the same fund. Let’s consider that to learn how to code, all you need is the desire to do so, a computer, and an internet connection, and a typical American household, even a financially struggling one, has all three. Now they’re hitting the unemployment office in the thousands, signing up for help. Some dropped out the first week. And how much could they earn? This? He points out a long-abandoned red-brick company store; the lane where all the managers lived. Here's how to clean it up. The U.S. Department of Labor announced a fund of nearly $5 million for working training programs in Appalachia earlier this year. The coders swivel back to their computers, and Michael announces weekend plans to no one in particular: “Looks like I better learn C#.”. By Sarah Jones. When you came here, you were IN something. As the coal industry collapses, tens of thousands of coal miners have lost jobs, and communities that used to depend on the industry are also struggling to … But BitSource has to work. So the owners of Jigsaw, a Pikeville, KY, excavation and engineering company, … He grew up near Pikeville, but left for a software career in Lexington, where he found himself ironing out the more ornate twists in his Appalachian lilt; it brings stigma even in the central part of the state, not to mention West Coast conferences. And Silicon Valley has shown that the digital economy doesn’t have to be created in the same place that it’s consumed. In fact, they’ve already got a name for this reinvention effort, the concept that ties everything together. “You’re not going to teach a coal miner to code.” So said former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, a … the biggest problem is whether or not workers actually have other jobs based out of where they live. In Kentucky, it’s coal mining, and in much of rural America, it’s agriculture. With some coal company stocks crashing 95 percent in value over the last five years, I would say it’s way, way worse. According to Weigel, the comment was met with silence from the audience. Were they technical thinkers? We drive out through Pike County, down the side of a mountain on a gravel road, until we reach the 1920’s-era duplex houses of a former company coal camp called Stone. “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. Story at a glance. Say what you will about the long-term environmental effects (Justice, for one, is very pro-coal) but the impact on the area’s one-source economy has been brutal. But what’s really haunting to Justice is not these old bodies, but the newly dead: each bend in the road reveals another abandoned mine, their massive conveyer belts gone silent. A mine down in Harlan County was hiring. Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”. Ratliff stares straight ahead. Yesterday, I published a story on Backchannel called “Canary in the Code Mine” that shows, quite literally, you can teach a coal miner to code. You bet people here have a chip on their shoulder. During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump ran on bringing coal jobs back to the United States, and Joe Biden said on December 30 that miners should learn to code, as those are the “jobs of the future.” As the weeks passed they added in more languages: CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, then Bootstrap and Drupal. If the coal miners see learning to code as easy ticket to money and have no interest in coding other than that, then, God no, please do not learn to code. Rusty Justice thought he might know miners a little better than some fancy tycoon in New York did. You gotta support your family, either you were at McDonald’s, or you made $60-$70,000 a year.”. Paul, a gregarious former surveyor wearing a camo jacket and camo baseball cap, tells me how when he was a kid in Virginia, his school bus was collateral damage of the jackrocks thrown on the road during a mine strike. “Have you been laid off from a job in the mining industry? Justice never imagined the crash would be this sudden nor this bad, but things just keep piling on. Then came an email with a BitSource job offer. Rusty takes a seat, checks Twitter, and then calls out for everyone’s attention. At a rally yesterday, Joe Biden advised a crowd in a coal mining town to learn computer programming. As of 2016, there were only 50,000 coal miners in the United States, and yet they occupy so much of our political imagination and conversation around jobs, unions and climate change. The one where he was born, right there, in that shingled white house. The coders listen to what Justice wants, then start to discuss how the app would work. But at the mines, who knows if the job would last two months, or two weeks? It was time to go and prove Bloomberg wrong. The miners underwent 22 weeks of intensive training from open-sourced coding curriculum the founders gathered online, and instructional videos on Lynda.com. Kentucky has been spending federal funds to train customer service work-from-homers, place out-of-work miners into other jobs, and a coding camp for kids. Garland rubs his brow and shakes his head. And although tech scenes have cropped up in cities in the middle of the country — Boulder, Austin, Indianapolis — things still lag in truly rural areas. A Black Hole Was Simulated And Studied In A Bathtub . On Wall Street, it’s a big enough problem that the New York Stock Exchange threatened former industrial titans with delisting. Good news, coal miners: Joe Biden has a brilliant … Meanwhile, a third wave of the pandemic is surging. There's no doubt you're going to be able to find some former coal miners who would make good coders. Hydroseeding, for the uninitiated, happens after a strip mine is finished getting excavated. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. He’d go to the end of the row and stop. The coders are getting it — they’re building websites, closing contracts. Via New York Magazine, Please Stop Telling Miners To Learn To Code: God only knows where Biden got the idea that coal mining consists of throwing the stuff into a furnace. “I didn’t like the work, I liked the people.”, This summer, Ratliff got a call from the same foreman who laid him off. Ratliff was one of the lucky ones. a mining analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence has said. And it turns out the assessment was incredibly adept at finding the miners who could be part of the club. For those hoping to preserve the community they’ve long been a part of, options may seem few and far between. So they decided to start a new business—a software development company that would hire former miners in eastern Kentucky, first teaching … “So you don’t have to teach motivation.”, Just as much as the code, Hall says he had to teach an aptitude for screwing up. Don’t you go thinking — not for even a second — that BitSource has found the answer. Code fills the screen of a BitSource coder. It’s pretty typical to view miners as downtrodden grunts who would have done anything else if they could have (see: Bloomberg). Much of the instruction came from videos at Lynda.com. Hall is a distant cousin of Rusty’s on one side. Do the coal miners want to learn to code and are interested in computers? It wasn’t just about coal politics this time — on that stuff, at least, Justice can agree to disagree. has proposed moving the U.S. away from fossil fuels to reduce the country’s carbon footprint. Tim Loh. But then things got really weird when he starting talking about coal miners. “I’ve missed a lot of my children growing up. It is, are there other industries, for those displaced workers to go to work,” he said. It’s like being at the stadium, all those people come together and they create this atmosphere? This week it’s El Azul Grande, a sit-down Mexican restaurant named in honor of the University of Kentucky’s rabid sports fans. This fall, working at BitSource, he hasn’t missed a game. Let’s not be like that old mule. The foreman said he got it. They’re all going to need to be fluent in C#. A mine project manager who, after hours, brought his Xbox to Call of Duty marathons at a buddy’s house. And miners are already technical workers, machine operators, drafters, engineers. 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