The American Jobs Act includes an immediate investment in employing construction workers to restore 150 miles of runway at American airports and put in place a next-generation air-traffic control system to reduce travel time and delays.
Marilyn Moon of Washington's Urban Institute calculates that the average Medicare recipient already spends nearly 19% of his or her income on health care and that in a generation's time, if the system remains unaltered, the proportion will rise to almost 30%.
For Ford, the spike in rare earth prices a couple of years ago came at a critical time, when it was finalizing development plans for its next generation hybrid system.