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Economics

Fiscal Policy and Automatic Stabilizers

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Unemployment insurance and progressive taxes are automatic stabilizers that reduce the impact of recessions by roughly one-third compared to a world without them.

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Why don't governments have to pass a new law every time a recession starts to cushion the blow? Some support arrives automatically.