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  2. Transfer payment - Wikipedia

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    Transfer payments to (persons) as a percent of federal revenue in the United States Transfer payments to (persons + business) in the United States. In macroeconomics and finance, a transfer payment (also called a government transfer or simply fiscal transfer) is a redistribution of income and wealth by means of the government making a payment, without goods or services being received in return ...

  3. Public finance - Wikipedia

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    Income distribution – Some forms of government expenditure are specifically intended to transfer income from some groups to others. For example, governments sometimes transfer income to people that have suffered a loss due to natural disaster. Likewise, public pension programs transfer wealth from the young to the old. Other forms of ...

  4. Mandatory spending - Wikipedia

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    Transfer payments to (persons) as a percent of Federal revenue in the United States Transfer payments to (persons + business) in the United States. The United States federal budget is divided into three categories: mandatory spending, discretionary spending, and interest on debt.

  5. Transfer payments multiplier - Wikipedia

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    In Keynesian economics, the transfer payments multiplier (or transfer payment multiplier) is the multiplier by which aggregate demand will increase when there is an increase in transfer payments (e.g., welfare spending, unemployment payments). [1] Transfer payments are not in the same theoretical category as government spending on goods and ...

  6. Fiscal policy - Wikipedia

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    In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxes or tax cuts) and expenditure to influence a country's economy. The use of government revenue expenditures to influence macroeconomic variables developed in reaction to the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the previous laissez-faire approach ...

  7. What is the debt ceiling, and is Trump right that a default ...

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    President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday shone a spotlight on the debt ceiling, rejecting a bipartisan government funding deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson and demanding lawmakers ...

  8. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way. [15] In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.

  9. Waiter arrested for giving Liam Payne cocaine before singer's ...

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    In a Dec. 30 statement, the local prosecutor's office said Paiz — referred to by only his initials — had allegedly provided Payne with cocaine twice on Oct. 14 and accepted payment for the ...