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quaternary 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 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 moretransportation,”- 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 morefood and sustainability,”- Shifts to mechanized agriculture in North America affected the workforce greatly. From 1790 to 1910, family-owned farms provided food for domestic consumption and export. Today, these farms are being replaced by mechanized, corporate agribusiness.-Green revolutiontechnologies and strategiesto increase yields (such asirrigation, computerization,GMO seeds, chemicalfertilizers
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Read moreAgribusiness,”- is farming conductedby large-scale operations that purchase, produce,finance, package
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Read moreGender equity in the US,”- Of the 535 people in the U.S. Congress as of2013, only 98 members, or 18.3 percent, werewomen.- As of 2012, Canadian women constituted 25percent of the House of Commons inParliament- Neither does well by comparison to the worldat large- On average, U.S. and Canadian female workersearn about 80 cents for every dollar that maleworkers earn for doing the same jobwomen now represent more than half of the North- American labor force
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Read moreHealth in the US,”- Coverage is private and oftentied to employment, making ithard for those with pre-existingconditions to change jobs. TheAffordable Health Care Act(Obamacare) is intended tocorrect some of theseproblems.Spends $8680 per capita onhealthcare
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Read moreHealth in Canada,”- Coverage of 100% of thepopulation and is heavilysubsidized.Spends $5948 per capita onhealthcare
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