What have been the effects of the events of September 11, 2001 on BLS data?
The events of September 11, 2001, resulted in a tragic loss of life and significant disruptions to workers in the local affected economies. In Lower Manhattan, about 368,000 persons worked within a few blocks of the World Trade Center, more than a half-million worked within the area cordoned off by emergency officials as they responded to the attack, and about 700,000 in a slightly larger area of the southern quarter of the island. For more information, see the detailed fact sheet from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program. It is not possible to separate overall job losses for October 2001 and subsequent months into the effects from the September 11 events and the effects from a generally weakening employment trend that had been evident for several months prior. However, several of the industries with substantial employment declines in October 2001 and some subsequent months, particularly air transportation, transportation services (which includes travel agencies), and h
