For instance, GDP growth is a result of (in addition to population growth) the incomereinvestment rate in the economy multiplied by the rate of return on that reinvestment (or the aggregate ROIC in the economy).
Congress had seen its earlier efforts to incentivize the investment of corporate resources in the development of low-income housing, including the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) and the passive-loss provision in the Economic Recovery Act of 1981, fail.
The Making Work Pay Credit, which also applied to earned income, was authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and was expected to be a temporary cut.