The Kentucky Startup That Is Teaching Coal Miners to Code

As coal industry jobs are lost, likely not to return, some in coal country have turned to coding

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Software coders William Stevens, from left, Michael Harrison, and Brack Quillen work on computers at the Bit Source LLC office in Pikeville, Kentucky, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016.
Software coders William Stevens, from left, Michael Harrison, and Brack Quillen work on computers at the Bit Source LLC office in Pikeville, Kentucky, U.S., on Monday, 1 Feb. 2016.
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