 After the coal industry took a hit in eastern Kentucky, Alex Hughes' business went under. Alex found himself unemployed for nearly six months in what was the lowest period of his life. Nearly two decades earlier, Alex was stabbed in the face by a drunk stranger, and the scar still stretches across his jaw and cheek. If given the choice, Alex told me, he'd prefer being stabbed again to losing the business he owned for 15 years and going without work.