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A Rural Colorado Coal County Was Struggling. Then A Tech Company Brought New Jobs

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When the mines in the North Fork Valley started laying off employees, Eric and Teresa Neal hired and retrained former coal miners to learn how to work with fiber optic cable. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
When the mines in the North Fork Valley started laying off employees, Eric and Teresa Neal hired and retrained former coal miners to learn how to work with fiber optic cable. (Meredith Rizzo/NPR)

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