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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service 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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food 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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Gender 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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