| Sumario: | This article describes the Current Employment Statistics (CES) and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) responses to the difficulties posed by the hurricane and its aftermath. The article also presents some of the employment and wage trends measured by the programs both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Both programs operate as Federal-State cooperative programs in which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) partners with workforce agencies in each state. Immediately following the hurricane, BLS assembled data from the CES survey and the QCEW as well as from other BLS programs into a pre-hurricane profile of the affected areas in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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