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On a spring day in 2017, Stephanie Frame sat down in her hilltop home deep in the mountain hollows to record a video.

She began with the litany of local decline: the vanishing jobs in the coal mines, the shuttering stores, the school that closed down. During one stretch of unemployment for her coal miner husband, the two had resorted to selling ramps, ginseng and yellowroot that they had dug up in the forest.

But this video, aimed at her neighbors, was an announcement: Redemption was here. A nonprofit called Mined Minds, promising to teach West Virginians how to write computer code and then get them well-paying jobs, was looking for recruits.

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Stephanie Frame at her home in Dixie, W.Va. Ms. Frame was one of several people in her community who signed up with Mined Minds, a nonprofit that promised to teach West Virginians how to write computer code and then get them well-paying jobs. Credit Andrew Spear for The New York Times

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