Energy
What did coal make possible in the 1700s and 1800s?
What was the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
Who oversees Medicare and Medicaid?
Who is the federal government.
The single largest manufacturing industry in the US.
What is the auto industry?
A loan to purchase a home.
What is a mortgage?
This percentage of the federal budget goes to pay for health care , mostly through Medicare and Medicaid.
What is 1/4
What is a common fuel used in America?
What is coal, oil, or natural gas.
What does Social Security provide?
What are RETIREMENT BENEFITS and SURVIVOR BENEFITS.
This person's company made the car available to the mass market at a price many could afford.
Who was Henry Ford?
Government-sponsored investment corporations that help make money available for home mortgages by buying mortgages that lending institutions issue.
What is Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac?
The percentage of the GDP that health care accounts for in the US.
What is 1/6
What country is the world's leading consumer of petroleum products?
What is the UNITED STATES.
What organization provides coverage for hospitalization and physician visits for Americans age 65 and older?
What is MEDICARE?
The automobile industry was centered in this part of the US in the 1900s.
Where was Detroit, MICHIGAN?
When a homeowner cannot afford to make mortgage payments, the process of that loan being defaulted and the lending agency taking over the house/property.
What is foreclosure?
The official name for Obamacare which started in 2010
What is the ACA -- Affordable Care Act
What source of energy surpassed coal as the largest fuel source for electricity production in the US in 2016?
What is natural gas?
The federal and state government's insurance coverage for low income individuals and families, pregnant women, elderly and those with disabilities.
Once titled the Big Three largest car companies in US.
What are General Motors (GM), Ford, and Chrysler?
The two parts of a payment on a mortgage.
What is the PRINCIPLE and the INTEREST?
Government involvement in healthcare causes this kind of market.
what is a distorted market
What is the name of the cartel that is an organization of oil-producing nations who cooperates to manage supply and influence global oil prices?
What is OPEC -- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
What is another term for FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and payroll taxes?
What are Social Security taxes?
Exhaust Emission Standards and Fuel Efficiency Regulations are are examples of what in the automotive industry.
What are government regulations?
What is the value that a home has above what someone owes on it?
What is EQUITY?
A small portion of the charges that individuals have to pay if they have health insurance.