The portion of the Obama stimulus package that provided unemployment benefits for longer than the usual 26 weeks is best thought of as

A. discretionary (and contractionary) fiscal policy.
B. discretionary (and expansionary) fiscal policy.
C. monetary policy.
D. nondiscretionary fiscal policy.


Answer: B

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