Why Is 9/11 Important

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A telecommuting job could be the answer for some people who prefer to be at home. After 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon I felt so out done by the great loss of lives in that attack. The attack on Americans who went to work and lost their lives is crazy. These land mark places housed the most educated, wisest, well trained and knowledgeable, historians people. The losses for 9/11 are as following:
“$7 billion: Amount paid out through the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund to the survivors of the 2,880 people killed and 2,680 injured in the attacks.
$8.7 billion: Estimated lifetime potential earnings lost of the victims who perished in the World Trade Center towers.
$500 million: Amount the city of New York paid in overtime
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$500 million: Cost to repair the Pentagon after the attack.
$40 billion: Insured losses related to the 9/11 attacks, including property, business interruption, aviation, workers compensation, life and liability insurance.
$192 million: Cost to run the NYPD's counter-terrorism and intelligence activities for one year.
$5 million: Amount the NYPD has earmarked from a Homeland Security grant to buy a high-speed, bullet-proof boat designed to respond to a suicide or live shooter attack in the city's port area.
$408 billion: Cost to operate the Department of Homeland Security since it was created in 2002.
$80.1 billion: Civilian and military intelligence gathering costs in 2010 - more than double what was spent in 2001.
$43 billion: Minimum cost of 10 years worth of U.S. airport security. Passengers cover roughly 40 percent each year through the passenger security tax of $2.50 per flight.
$1.1 billion: Estimated price to modify and add stealth features to a fleet of 73 MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, two of which are thought to have been used in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, according to Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at the Teal Group
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Before the car, advancements in technology and machines much of the work was done by hand. During the 1740 to 1840 classes of people were earning their living in a system called the putting out (Hering, 2015). The putting out system of work was termed as Remote work. Then, came the Industrial Revolution the advancement in machines brought the classes to the work. (Nayab; Scheid 2011). Because, of gas shortages and responses to the Greenhouse effects a new term was coined in 1970 by Jack Niles. The term Telecommuting had revitalized an old concept in people working Remote work. The transformation period for people in certain jobs. People who performed their work by hands would move into an office space or factory. The artisans and farmers profession was replaced by machines forcing certain classes to offices spaces and factories to work (Light, J. S.

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