The Effects Of 9/11 On America

9/11 was a huge event in U.S history. It was where Islamic terrorists hijacked planes, 2 going into the world trade center, one crashing into the middle of a field, and one hitting the pentagon. These terrorists were part of a group called Al-Qaeda. The founder of Al-Qaeda was Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of a lot of terrorist attacks. 9/11 caused a lot of change in the U.S for the people, and the nation.

First, 9/11 affected the economy of New York. The attack had a big problem with job. According to a study to be published today by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Cost the city's economy 143,000 jobs a month and $2.8 billion in lost wages in the subsequent three months, a far greater impact than could be attributed to the recession that had begun earlier that year.” The World Trade Center had 400 businesses working there, and some businesses being really important. Also around 3,000 people died from the attack, witch that affected taxes. Congress made an act called the Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001. That was to provide tax relief to citizens that got affected by the attack. That caused a $3.5 billion decrease in the state of New York (DePietro).

Then it affected airport security changed a lot right after 9/11 to keep people safe. Right after 9/11 President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was to provide America ways to intercept and obstruct terrorism, for example they enhanced survaillance procedures (Congress.Gov). They also made Homeland Security which is supposed to protect us from attacks from abroad, witch cost the U.S $589 billion! (DePietro). Also new procedures happened like removing shoes and banning liquids. Also pilots can sign up to become a federal flight deck officer, so they can carry a gun with them when they fly. They also require you to have identification requirements, which is crazy that they didn’t do that before 9/11(Santhanam). According to PBS,”Only 5 percent of checked bags were screened before 9/11, whereas all are screened for dangerous materials today.” This also meant having to wait way longer for people trying to go on a flight .

9/11 also affected racism towards Islamic people living in the United States. Violence against Muslims broke out immediately following 9/11, and has been the same ever since then. People were associated ethnic groups with being terrorists. Four days after the attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi was shot and killed in Arizona. The gunmans reason was because the guy was wearing a terbin. Acoording to Center for American progress, “In 2001, the FBI recorded 93 anti-Muslim assaults - a number that was not eclipsed until 2016, when the bureau recorded 127 such incidents.” Also a lot of shooting in mosques occurred after 9/11 (Kaur). All muslims were being targeted, even though they were doing nothing wrong.

It also affected a lot of people by creating diseases. 9/11 had links to creating respiratory and digestive diseases, cancers, post-traumatic stress disorder. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the World Trade Center Health Program in 2011. The World Trade Center Health Program provides medical benefits who were affected by 9/11. Thousands of people living in New York had to breath in toxic fumes, after the towers fell. Tons of people were getting all types of cancer from the fumes. They were also making people work a week after 9/11 so they were exposed to breathing this bad air inMen were developing Breast Cancer which is very rare for it to happen in males (Durkin).

9/11 created the war in Iraq against the Taliban. The war on terror is a military campaign launched by president Bush. This war added 2.4 trillion to the national debt (Amadeo). Over 100 countries have offered support with this war. Counter terrorists operations with over 200 intelligence and security services worldwide. There was a lot of bombing in the war, like when a B-52H dropped a load of 750 pounds on Iraq. That was not the only bombing, there was a lot of incidents of us or another country bombing them (9-11 A Tribute, 186). We still have troops in Iraq to this day, that's how serious our relationship with Iraq is.

After 9/11, the stock market crashed. The market fell 684 points, thats a 7.1% decline. NYSE and Nasdaq remained close for 6 days! An estimated $1.4 trillion was lost, and that was for 6 days. That is the longest shutdown until 1933. That means tons of people were losing money. (Investopedia)

A positive of 9/11 was that world leaders United. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi discuss Europe's role to respond to the terrorist attacks in the United States. Then Bush meets with French President on how that Paris was determined to support washington's war on the “absolute evil” of terrorism. There was a bunch of other places that Bush met with like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, and Canadian Prime Minister. There were a lot more people he met, that wanted to help the U.S on terrorism. ( 9-11 A Tribute, 134)

9/11 was an event that would never be forgotten. Everybody that was alive when it happened knows exactly what they were doing when they heard about the event. This event will always be remembered, and how it affected the United States, also the people in the United States.