The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed by President Barack Obama in 2009, aimed at: closing an expansionary gap through a contractionary fiscal policy. stimulating the aggregate demand in the economy. providing higher unemployment benefits to the residents of the economy. removing the supply bottlenecks in the economy. ensuring free trade flows across the world.

In each of the following cases, find the unknown variable. ignore taxes. (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) accounting unit price unit variable cost fixed costs depreciation break-even 20,500 $ 44 $ 24 $ 275,000 $ 133,500 44 4,400,000 940,000 8,000 75 320,000 80,000

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60

Assume the total cost of a college education will be $250,000 when your child enters college in 17 years. you presently have $69,000 to invest. what annual rate of interest must you earn on your investment to cover the cost of your child’s college education? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)