This article deals with economics because it involves the current and upcoming recession in our economy. It states that the government has too many benefits for workers with low pay or unemployed. The poverty rate should rise with a recession, but the government is intervening.

This article is a great example of economics in which it applies a major part of any economy: supply and demand. It suggests that even the oil market is not immune from the law of supply and demand. The writer of the article states that the best way to get oil prices to go down is to let them go up.