According to the article from https://www.cbpp.org/research/economy/fiscal-stimulus-needed-to-fight-recessions

Section: Fiscal Policy Played a Prominent Role in the Great Recession

Unsustainable increases in bond and housing prices and excessive borrowing to purchase risky assets led to the financial market meltdown in the summer and fall of 2008, which in turn further weakened economic activity. As former Fed chair Janet Yellen, then President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, explained in early 2009:

• Once this massive credit crunch hit, it didn't take long before we were in a recession. The recession, in turn, deepened the credit crunch as demand and employment fell, and credit losses of financial institutions surged. . . . Consumers [pulled] back on purchases, especially on durable goods, to build their savings. Businesses [canceled] planned investments and [laid] off workers to preserve cash. And, financial institutions [shrank] assets to bolster capital and improve their chances of weathering the current storm.

The first step of re-establishing financial market stability fell largely to the Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which acted to restore liquidity that had evaporated in the crisis due to falling asset prices and the failure or near-failure of major financial institutions. Most notably, Congress eventually agreed to the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which established a $700 billion fund to give banks the capital they needed to continue to make loans.

To address the faltering economy, the Federal Reserve cut its target interest rate essentially to zero between October and December 2008, when it adopted a target range of 0 to 0.25 percent, which it maintained for the next five years. With no room for further conventional monetary stimulus via cuts in short-term interest rates, the Fed turned to unconventional measures, notably what would eventually be three rounds of large-scale purchases of longer-term assets a policy known as quantitative easing to try to lower longer-term interest rates and continue to provide needed stimulus.

On the fiscal policy front, President Obama and Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in February 2009. ARRA's roughly $830 billion of tax cuts and spending measures were at the time by far the largest package of "Keynesian stimulus" in the post-World War II era. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in its 2015 assessment of the impact of ARRA on employment and output, grouped the various provisions into the following four broad categories:

• Providing funds to states and localities for example, by raising the federal government's share of Medicaid costs, providing funding for education costs, and increasing financial support for some transportation projects;
• Supporting people in need such as by extending and expanding unemployment benefits and increasing benefits under SNAP;
• Purchasing goods and services for instance, by funding construction and other investment activities that could take several years to complete; and
• Providing temporary tax relief for individuals and businesses ranging from expansions of the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits and a new Making Work Pay tax credit to creating enhanced deductions for depreciation of business equipment and raising exemption amounts for the alternative minimum tax (AMT). "

Questions:

a)The section "Fiscal Policy Played a Prominent Role in the Great Recession" describes the factors that triggered and deepened the Great Recession. According to the article, what were the factors that triggered the Great Recession? What were the factors that deepened the Great Recession?

b) According to the section "Fiscal Policy Played a Prominent Role in the Great Recession", what monetary policy measures were adopted by the Fed to fight the recession? Which of those measures were unconventional monetary policies?

c)According to the section "Fiscal Policy Played a Prominent Role in the Great Recession", what fiscal policy measures were adopted by the federal government to fight the recession? Specifically, what was the total size of the fiscal policy package and what public law promulgated these measures? What were the four groups of such measures as categorized by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)?