stimulus packages
Government financial boosts
Stimulus packages are government programs designed to boost economic activity during downturns, typically combining tax cuts, direct payments to citizens, and increased public spending.
The term became widespread during the 2008 financial crisis and again during the COVID-19 pandemic: Congress passed a trillion-dollar stimulus package.
The singular stimulus package refers to one such program.
- subsidiesFinancial aid from government
- tax reliefReduction in owed levies
- unemployment benefitsState aid for jobless workers
- social safety netsPublic programs preventing destitution
- bailoutsEmergency financial interventions
quantitative easing · deficit spending · direct payments · Keynesian economics · trickle down · infrastructure funding · shovel ready · cash · grants · public investment · loan guarantees · food stamps · housing assistance · job creation · small business loans · tax rebates · trillion · fiscal policy
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal restraint, tariff
- financial supportaid, allowance, funding, financial aid, grants
- Bailoutsbailout, bank bailout, bank bailouts, rescue fund, auto bailout
- economic stimuluseconomic relief, economic recovery, bailout, bailouts, relief funds
- Policyeconomic policy, public policy, energy policy, tax policy, domestic policy
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
stimulus packagesausterity measures
Policies reducing government spending
austerity · budget cuts · spending cuts · fiscal austerity · sequestration
package, stimulate, packaging, stimulus, stimulation, stimulative