Across
- 1. People with disabilities are among those eligible for medicaid if they cannot afford health care
- 6. Price are rising too rapidly
- 12. Consumers like you and me buy US goods and services
- 13. Unemployment directly related to swings in the business cycle
- 14. Unemployment caused by annual changes in the weather or other conditions that reduce the demand for jobs
- 17. A shrinking economy producing fewer goods and services than before
- 19. Recession and inflation together
- 22. A negative balance after expenditures are subtracted from revenues
- 23. Tax in which the percentage of income paid in tax is the same regardless of the level of income
- 24. Spending for federal programs that must receive annual authorization
Down
- 1. Federal spending authorized by law that continues without the need for annual approvals by congress
- 2. Businesses buy goods called capital
- 3. Most people who want a job have a job
- 4. When economic progress a change in consumer tastes and progress especially technological change
- 5. Bank belonging to the Federal Reserve
- 7. Unemployment involving workers changing jobs or waiting to go to new ones
- 8. That new or emerging industries should be protected from foreign competition
- 9. The government also buys US-made goods and services
- 10. A positive balance after expenditures are subtracted from revenues
- 11. The main cause of inflation that the government creates
- 15. The difference between the money a country put out to, and receives from, other nations when it engages in international trade
- 16. Bank that can lend money to other banks in times of need
- 18. An increase in prices in general
- 20. How many dollars worth of goods and services were made in America over time
- 21. People in other countries also buy US goods and services