Question

During the Great Depression, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration paid farmers not to grow crops, and they received government ____ instead.

- pensions
- subsidies
- food

Answer 1

Pensions i believe. A pension is basically when someone is paid by their employer or the government not to do something or it is when you are paid in retirement. 

Answer 2

The correct answer is subsidy.

During the Great Depression, the US government launched a program called Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) aimed at controlling production, and consequently prices, to protect American farmers. In return, the government would pay subsidy so that the producers left part of their land idle.