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A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that measures taken to stem the 2008 Great Recession and financial crisis prevented the economy from tumbling into a 1930s-style Great Depression. The MacArthur-supported report finds that without the 2009 Recovery Act, TARP bailout, and other measures, the economy would have shrunk nearly 14 percent, more than triple its actual 4 percent drop. The report is intended to educate policymakers on ways to respond to future problems with the economy.