- price ceiling: the highest legal price that can be charged for a product
 - price floor: the lowest legal price that can be paid for a good or service
 - minimum wage: lowest legal wage that can be paid to most workers
 - unemployed: having no job
 - income: money that is made by working
 - Great Depression: a period where Americans lost jobs and the stock market crashed in the 1920s
 - target prices: the floor for agricultural products to stabilize farm income
 - loan: money that is borrowed
 - penalty: punishment, extra money paid
 - agriculture: farming
 - crops: goods grown on farms
 - deficiency payment: cash payment that makes up the difference between the market price and the target price
 - investors: someone who spends money in order to make more money