Today’s quiz topic is the impact of government programs in boosting the economy and reducing hardship during the recession.
Here’s today’s quiz:
- The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the nation’s Gross Domestic Product in the second quarter of 2010 was ____ it would have been without the Recovery Act.
- a. between 1.7 and 4.5 percent smaller than
- b. between 1.7 and 4.5 percent larger than
- c. 3.2 percent larger than
- d. the same as
- CBO also estimates that without the Recovery Act, the unemployment rate in 2010 would have been ____ than it actually will be.
- a. 0.7 to 1.8 percentage points higher
- b. 0.7 to 1.8 percentage points lower
- c. 1 percentage point higher
- d. neither higher nor lower
- Up to ____ jobs would have been lost next year if Congress had not extended fiscal aid to states in August.
- a. 300,000
- b. 500,000
- c. 900,000
- d. 1.2 million
- The TANF Emergency Fund has helped create ____ subsidized private- and public-sector jobs.
- a. 50,000
- b. 100,000
- c. 200,000
- d. 250,000
- The number of Americans receiving food stamps has grown by roughly ____ since the start of the recession.
- a. 3 million
- b. 7 million
- c. 10 million
- d. 13 million
Reminder: We’re posting a quiz every day this week on a key issue facing lawmakers this fall. We’ll post the answers each afternoon. If you keep score on your own and send an email to [email protected] at the end of the today with your score, we’ll send you one of our newly-designed Center on Budget T-shirts.