1. Identify two (2) of those automatic stabilizers from #2 above funding for which funding has been cut and/or for which the criteria for qualifying for benefits have been made more difficult to meet and explain how that will decrease the ability of the programs to stabilize the economy during the current CoVid19 pandemic and make the pandemic in the United States even worse.

2. The second "bailout" measure for the US economy gave income grants to people whose earned incomes are so low that they do not have to pay any federal income tax. This would weaken aggregate demand even further by further depressing consumer spending. That bill, as initially conceived, would have significantly slowed economic growth in the United States.