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US Black Lung Disease Cases Surge as Miners Plead for Benefits

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis diagnoses reach a 50-year high while sick miners face prolonged delays in receiving disability benefits.

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  1. ‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge The Guardian US ·

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