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Coal mines and power plants keep shutting down. Economic help hasn't come

Despite years of warnings about coal mines and power plants shutting down on the Navajo Reservation, promised funding to help an economic transition has failed to materialize.

Alice Fordham from KUNM In New Mexico reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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