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transportation,”- An extensive road and air transport network is key to North America’s productive economy. In the 1950s, the Interstate Highway System, a 45,000-mile network of high-speed multilane roads, allowed for more flexible and faster delivery of goods than can be provided by rail. After World War II
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Read moreservice sector,”Today, the economic base of North America is atertiary sector in which people are engaged in various services such as transportation, utilities, wholesale and retail trade, health, leisure, maintenance, finance, government, information, and education. In Canada and the United States, 75% of jobs are in the tertiary or service sector. This does not mean that all jobs are higher-paying! The average pay at the largest employer in the United States, Walmart, is just $12/hr, which is barely abovepoverty level. The service sector includes very high paying jobs
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Read morequaternary sector (knowledge economy),”- The knowledge economy (or quaternary sector) includes workers whomanage information, such as those in finance, journalists, education,researchers, and health-care professionals. Because these industries are dependent on managers, communicators,thinkers and technicians, they are able to be located more flexibly,preferring clusters where there is a surplus of required talent, such as nearmajor universities or research institutions. The information technology (IT) sector, for example, which deals withcomputer software, hardware, and management of data
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Read moredigital divide,”- A fifth of the North American population is not able to afford computers and Internet connections, causing a discrepancy inaccess to information technology between small, rural, and poor areas and large
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Read moreglobalization and economy,”North America is the wealthiest and most technologicallyadvanced presence in the global economy. Canada and theUnited States are massive economies
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Read moreUrbanization,”- Since World War II, NorthAmerica’s urban population hasincreased by 150% but the landoccupied by this population hasincreased by 300%
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Read moremetropolitan areas,”80% of North Americans live inthese areas, or cities of50
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Read moremegalopolis,”- As suburbs grew and spread out,nearby cities often coalescedinto a single urban mass, calledthis, describing, forexample, the 500-mile band ofurbanization from Boston toWashington
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Read moreurban sprawl,”drives farmers from land that is located close to urban areas, because farmland on the urban fringe is very attractive to realestate developers. In North America each year, 2 million acres of agricultural and forestlands make way for this Advocates of farmland preservation argue that beyond food and fiber,farms also provide economic diversity, soul-soothing scenery
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