The following appeared as part of an article in a Dillton newspaper.
"In an effort to bring new jobs to Dillton and stimulate the city's flagging economy, Dillton's city council voted last year to lower the city's corporate tax rate by 15 percent; at the same time, the city began offering generous relocation grants to any company that would move to Dillton. Since these changes went into effect, two new factories have opened in Dillton. Although the two factories employ more than 1,000 people, the unemployment rate in Dillton remains unchanged. The only clear explanation for this is that the new factories are staffed with out-of-town workers rather than Dillton residents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
Although the explanation provided for the partial outcome of the council’s decision is quite plausible, it is important to examine the issue for different perspectives to understand the reason for the undeclined unemployment rate, despite the influx of two new companies into the city.
One explanation is that there could have been a sharp increase in the city population. A decrease in corporate tax is a major factor that causes intermigration between cities. The city council agreed to decrease tax rate by 15%, this provides an attractive incentive is certain to invite both companies. This possibility of company investment being a well-known may have attracted unemployed people from neighboring cities, so that although the companies employed a significant number of people it wasn’t enough to reduce the unemployment rate that had already been significantly increased.
There could also have been a sharp increase in the unemployment rate in the city. The influx of the new companies may have caused local small businesses enterprises to foldup operations because they could not compete with these larger companies. For instance, a local restaurant with about 20 employees that was unable to withstand the competition of a larger fast food company would have been put out of business; resulting in 20 new unemployed people. Similarly, consequent to reduction in corporate tax rate local businesses may have fired employees because the income of the business was sure to increase as such they did not need extra workers to maximize their income.
Lastly, following the stated explanations the companies may have indeed brought some foreign workers because citizen of Dilton city did not have the required credentials to work in those companies. Indeed, some unqualified citizens may have quit their previous jobs with the futile assurance that they were going to be employed in these factories. These factories may also have been small factories with could only employ a small insignificant fraction of the extensive unemployed population; so that the effect of employment was not sufficient to reduce the increased unemployment rate.
In summary, although the new factories may have brought new workers from outside the city, there are other explanations that should be considered before concluding that the city council’s decision did not yield the desired outcome.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 373 350
No. of Characters: 1973 1500
No. of Different Words: 184 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.395 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.29 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.877 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.692 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.995 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.398 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.634 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, lastly, may, similarly, so, well, for instance, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 0.0 11.1786427146 0% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2024.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 372.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44086021505 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93601062665 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505376344086 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.6877227223 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.692307692 119.503703932 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6153846154 23.324526521 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23076923077 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.111698078767 0.218282227539 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523726844068 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514880558092 0.0701772020484 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0713958110443 0.128457276422 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384072586715 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.5 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 48.3550499002 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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