• Employment-insurance payments.
• Cost-of-living escalators in government contracts and pensions.
• Free university tuition for unemployed workers after six months of unemployment, provided that they are under 30 years old and have had five or more years of full-time work experience since high school.

From the given list, employment insurance is definitely an automatic stabilizer, but can you explain your rationale why the other two are not? What specifically disqualifies them?

During a recession, total public assistance payments and unemployment compensation payments automatically increase while income taxes automatically decrease. What do you think might be the impact on aggregate demand in the economy due to this?