This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareMOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — Kathleen Trabert grew up in a town of diminished dreams as steel and coal jobs dried up. She spent more than a decade jumping among retail, fast food and home health aide jobs that paid so little that her family relied on food stamps and Medicaid to get by.In 2018, Trabert landed a job that paid more than she had ever earned — $31 an hour operating machines to dig up West Virginia’s hills to lay pipelines for natural gas. The gas boom improved her life and her town’s. She booked her first big vacation...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareMOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — Kathleen Trabert grew up in a town of diminished dreams as steel and coal jobs dried up. She spent more than a decade jumping among retail, fast food and home health aide jobs that paid so little that her family relied on food stamps and Medicaid to get by.In 2018, Trabert landed a job that paid more than she had ever earned — $31 an hour operating machines to dig up West Virginia’s hills to lay pipelines for natural gas. The gas boom improved her life and her town’s. She booked her first big vacation...WW…