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Across 2. how much cash commercial banks must keep in their vaults 3. support for disadvantaged people to meet their basic needs 4. one´s tax rate increases as one´s income increases 6. rising prices and devaluation of the dollar-when there are too many dollars in circulation 7. the part of economic policy that is concerned with government spending and taxation 8. oversees the collection of income tax process 11. how the government manages the supply and demand of its currency and value of the dollar 12. laissez-faire, free market theory 14. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, block grants, financial aid, food stamps, money owed on bonds, contractual obligations 15. the interest rate at which the government loans actual dollars to commercial banks 16. helps ease the medical costs of seniors over the age of 65 17. process of an ever-expanding and increasingly interactive world economy 18. taxes citizens at the same rate 19. lifted trade barriers among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, removed import taxes among these powers 20. provides health insurance coverage for the poorest americans

Down 1. sets monetary policy by buying and selling securities or bonds, regulating money reserves required at commercial banks, and setting interest rates 5. paying those who are legally entitled to funds 9. a mechanism by which an increase in spending results in an economic growth greater than the amount of spending 10. determine which citizens who are less fortunate and under the age of 65 qualify for Social Security aid 13. a list of potential policy ideas, bills, or plans to improve society